Re: GGI and cli/sti in X

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 13:17:38 -0500

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Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> You can't kill the X server as normal user today either, because it
> normally needs to be root so or so. That's not the point. Doing a kill
> -9 on any process on the system is legal. Right? (At least as root.)
> So what does it stop me to kill -9 both processes?

Well, the idea is that after the upgrade the server proper shouldn't
need to run as root. Linus's boolean priviledges mask concept might need
to be brought to bear to make this work.

-- Raul

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