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From: kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: RE:  The DISPLAY Variable and a wish list
Summary: Dream Land Ideas?
Message-ID: <642@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 89 04:39:07 GMT
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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o Everything on the X tape should be POSIX compliant

I just got through the arduous adventure of porting X to a System V system.
(Fortunately, we had a socket implementation).  Are there any plans by anyone
in MIT or somewhere to make Xlib POSIX-based?  (I realize that this probably
won't be necessary for about a year or eighteen months, but EVERYONE's **IX
(and VMS???) should be POSIX-compliant by then.)

o Having LOGIN or XDM set your DISPLAY variable BEFORE exec-ing your login
  shell

The DISPLAY variable is just like your entry in /dev/*ty*** for dumb terminals.
When X terminals become standard equipment in minicomputers, forcing the
users to set it in login scripts will be A MASSIVE ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMARE.
Also, this would make X-Window a much more secure system.

					Greg Kemnitz