Bug 33163

Summary:	connect api calls missing (auth and create fd)
Product:	XCB	Reporter:	bugs.freedesktop.org
Component:	Library	Assignee:	xcb mailing list dummy <xcb>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	xcb mailing list dummy <xcb>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description bugs.freedesktop.org 2011-01-15 10:46:04 UTC

currently there is a api for connecting with a xcb_auth_info_t structure but there is no nice api to actually get the structure.

there should be a api like:

xcb_auth_info_t *xcb_get_auth_info(const char *display);
int xcb_create_fd(const char *display);

why: I'm developing a module for ulatencyd that observes the local x server to detect the current program in focus. As the daemon has root privileges, he can't connect to X easily. To obtain the cookie the module needs to fork and drop to the user uid to obtain the cookie and use it with:
xcb_connect_to_display_with_auth_info

As no api is available, i had to copy a lot of xcb code to accomplish this.

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