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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-08-26 15:33:51 +0200
committerMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-08-26 15:33:51 +0200
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info: more on MDS_DISPLAY
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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@@ -741,6 +741,15 @@ with the environment variable @env{MDS_DISPLAY}@.
The display index is the TCP-port if the host is
non-empty.
+@cpindex Networking
+@pgindex @command{mds-remote}
+Servers (and clients) that depend the display being
+local, should reject any value on @env{MDS_DISPLAY}
+that does not start with a colon. They should instead
+utilise @command{mds-remote}.
+
+@c TODO More on MDS_DISPLAY for remote access, see libmdsclient/address.c
+
@cpindex Environment variables
@vrindex @env{MDS_PGROUP}
@cpindex Display server process group