Re: [dev] [slock] kill slock with Ctrl+Alt+Multiply

From: Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckless_AT_ecki.to>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:14:56 +0100

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:14:03PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> 2012/1/22 Hadrian Węgrzynowski <hadrian_AT_hawski.com>:
> > I will repeat my self. Read this first:
> > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2012/01/xkb-breaking-grabs-cve-2012-0064.html
>
> I did, however there should be a way to prevent similar issues from
> happening anyways.
> Next year someone sez press Ctrl-Alt-something this will crash the
> running X client ;)

I don't think it's a good idea to add complexity to a suckless program
for a _bug_ in X (that is kinda fixed already). Even xscreensaver
doesn't want to fight X insecurities[1].

  [1] http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-ctl-alt-bs

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Eckehard Berns
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