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Author SHA1 Message Date
Earnestly
718add311c doc: clarify purpose and bump the manual date 2017-12-07 12:03:43 +00:00
Earnestly
30457a3139 sx: drop dependencies on coreutils and util-linux
Upon review of GNU tail I discovered that the implemention of --pid was
the same method as polling kill -0 on a sleep interval, which defaults
to 1 second unless -s is used.

This is perhaps expected due to the lack of a pwait(2) system call, I
decided to implement the same mechanic myself and drop both the
requirement on GNU tail and GNU timeout at the same time.

This commit also replaces mcookie from util-linux with openssl rand
which is used to generate a random MD5 checksum for use in the
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 value.
2017-12-07 11:58:40 +00:00
Earnestly
39702615b7 sx: fgconsole is no longer needed 2017-12-05 10:04:27 +00:00
Earnestly
64038adef2 sx: create XAUTHORITY directory components
We need to do this in sx as neither xauth(1) or touch(1) will create the
path.  Requiring the user to do this would lead to additional code on
their side to account for a detail that sx already controls.  There
is no obvious benefit for omitting this functionality.
2017-12-04 11:58:32 +00:00
Earnestly
60762a5487 doc: clarify how XAUTHORITY is used 2017-12-04 11:58:00 +00:00
Earnestly
f25cbb415d sx: test has clearer syntax when AND or OR is used 2017-12-04 11:56:45 +00:00
Earnestly
a5fc2e3907 sx: combine export and assignment 2017-12-02 11:40:28 +00:00
Earnestly
e08bc130c0 sx: use the default logfile
There's not a lot of point in absorbing the xserver's log file when it
will just be less intuitive for those looking for it in the standard
location.  Since the log is generated by Xorg and not sx, it only seems
reasonable.

This commit also renames xauthfile to xauthority for a little more
consistency with documentation and prior art.
2017-12-02 02:22:29 +00:00
Earnestly
29e20b2e41 sx: remove unused code 2017-12-02 02:17:10 +00:00
Earnestly
95f648452f README: mention the Xorg.wrap bypass
Xorg.wrap default system of autodetection of root rights requirement is
wrong in every case I've seen it used.  The result is the Xorg server
runs as the root user when it is not necessary.

The main autodetection failure case is when the proprietary nvidia
drivers are used, incorrectly assuming Xorg needs to be run as root.
2017-12-01 21:15:06 +00:00
Earnestly
6b089b8d50 sx: unconditionally run xauth remove in cleanup
Even if xauth(1) fails before we get a $pid for cleanup, make sure to
run xauth remove during cleanup.
2017-12-01 20:59:00 +00:00
Earnestly
161b8be6f5 introduce sx 2017-12-01 20:14:54 +00:00