Re: Problem with libart backend

[Alexander Malmberg]

Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> 
> Circa Sat. Oct. 26, 2002 at 16:31:04 +0200, a lone cry was heard from
> Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> in the wasteland called the
> Internet:
> 
> > Sounds like the shared memory code is failing without noticing it.
> > Which version of GNUstep is this? What system? There was a similar
> > problem on some systems if a segment was marked for destruction too
> > soon, but it was fixed 2002-08-23.
> 
> I am on a x86 Linux system with kernel 2.4.19. The version of GNUstep is
> cvs dated today.
> 
> > Some things worth trying are (in back/Source/x11/XWindowBuffer.m):
> 
> > * line 174, change 0700 to 0777 (a potential security problem, though)
> 
> This worked.

That's a bit strange. Is the X server running as some third user (ie.
not you and not root)? I could add a defaults key that switches it to
0777, but that allows any local user to attach to the shared memory and
see/modify the contents of your windows.

- Alexander Malmberg