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| author | Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> | 2022-05-31 19:23:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> | 2022-06-15 07:57:12 +0000 |
| commit | 7eb00b070d8a7ec98f58980862b63a0063c66d6b (patch) | |
| tree | 3700d184d4b0312ab06873b00e49a62552402c8c /src | |
| parent | tests: add a test for dynamic filtered globals (diff) | |
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server: add PID race condition disclaimer to wl_client_get_credentials
PIDs are re-used and cannot be used to reliably check the identity of
a Wayland client.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/wayland-server.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/wayland-server.c b/src/wayland-server.c index 732f153..4bcc9ae 100644 --- a/src/wayland-server.c +++ b/src/wayland-server.c @@ -578,6 +578,9 @@ err_client: * SO_PEERCRED, on the client socket fd. All the pointers can be * NULL, if the caller is not interested in a particular ID. * + * Note, process IDs are subject to race conditions and are not a reliable way + * to identify a client. + * * Be aware that for clients that a compositor forks and execs and * then connects using socketpair(), this function will return the * credentials for the compositor. The credentials for the socketpair |