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Re: Security

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From: Steve Dodd
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:00
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Stefan Davids <smd@hopf.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Irix does this (and using/admining that is an extreme displeasure).
> Interestingly it also appears to need a listening process to manage to
> show icons in its icon tray.  

The latter /might/ be justifiable, I suppose. X is supposed to be network
transparent. Though I'm too tired to get my head around the IPC issues
involved in an icon tray. Brain hurts.

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From: Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1999/12/14
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