Re: Xid - Pid establishment

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:57:51 +0530 Kala B <[email protected]> babbled:

> Hi,
> Thanks a lot for your immediate reply. 
> It would be very helpful if you could point me to a  mechanism,
> whereby I could achieve the same without an LD_PRELOAD?

hack xlib itself. ie replace libX11.so with a modified version that does what
this LD_PRELOAD does.

> Thanks again
> Kala.
> 
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> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:20:59 +0900, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:17:33 +0530 Kala B <[email protected]> babbled:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to develop an application, which needs to know the owner (
> > > process id )  of every window that is being created on the system. As,
> > > setting of _NET_WM_PID is not mandated for applications, is there some
> > > other way through which I could get to know the pid of a window?
> > >
> > > I am only interested in the scenario, when both the xserver and
> > > xclient are on the same machine, so the XServer uses a Unix domain
> > > socket. So, in this case, the XServer would anyway get to know the pid
> > > of the connecting client by using the SO_PEERCRED option. Can the
> > > xserver propagate the pid of the client ? (Probably by adding another
> > > specific property to every window being created?). Would there be any
> > > issues with this approach.
> > >
> > > These are my very very initial thoughts and am also new to X, so
> > > request you all to give me your suggestions.
> > 
> > see attached source and Makefile.am - use it as an LD_PRELOAD (i did this a
long
> > time ago) and then u guarantee properties on everything you run with the
> > LD_PRELOAD active.
> > 
> > > Thanks a lot
> > > Kala
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