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Hi Uecker!

I really don't know this is the best place to ask, but I don't know anywhere to ask you, so... Is C2Y getting any generic programming features? I'd really love the one with _Type as a new type that stores a type.


I hope so. WG14 seems to like it (but not everybody), but it is not existing practice. So it will mostly depend on me creating a prototype and doing a lot convincing.

Wayland's security isolation is a necessary, but not sufficient, measure to prevent this kind of attack.

It is not an attack if there is no privilege boundary in the first place. One could argue that should be, but then X's security would have also worked which is the point of the article. The problem was that Wayland propaganda pretended actual users would benefit from improved security immediately because there was a gaping security hole. The point of the linked repo is that this is nonsense and typical Linux users do not benefit at all.



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