Bug 5337

Summary: A Listen address should be passable from the command line
Product: xorg Reporter: Stuart Anderson <anderson>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: alan.coopersmith
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Stuart Anderson 2005-12-14 10:39:42 UTC 
It would be useful to be able to pass in a hostname/IP on which the X Server 
would listen as part of the display specification (ie host:0). This would 
provide more granularity than --nolisten tcp.

The changes for this need to be made where the display is parsed and placed 
intot he global variable "display", which is then used in 
CreateWellKnownSockets() where it is passed into the Xtrans code (via 
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners()). TRANS(SocketINETCreateListener)() 
also needs to be adjusted to use the hostname passed in instead of INADDR_ANY.

One aspect that needs a little bit more thought, is how to handle non-INET 
transports when a hostname is passed in. Perhaps each transport will just have 
to decide how it wants to intepret (or ignore) the host part of the listener 
address.
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:29:21 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 22:16:14 UTC 
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