Vulnerability Development: RE: Problem with xkill

[Michel Arboi <arboi () yahoo com>]

 --- anthony gruppuso <agruppus () jcals army mil> a écrit : 
> I understand that, we use a very strict host access control list here
> on all Xserver based devices/products
Obviously not, as you could connect to another display.

> I just thought it was interesting that xkill behaved in that manner.
> Initally I was under the impression that it would function like a 
> graphical kill, but apparently that is not the case.
I'm not sure what you call "graphical kill", but once the connection tp
the X server is cut, there is nothing than the client can do, apart
from saving its data and exiting nicely.
Most client just die on SIGPIPE.


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