[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#700696: Bug#700696: acpi-support: race in sleep script delays screen locking to after resume

[Michael Meskes]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:43:21AM +0100, Tormod Volden wrote:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-acpi/acpi-support.git;a=commitdiff;h=9fb9c28886b4002306428ac2b7ff04779bd0e0cb
> changed the xscreensaver-command -lock invocation to be run in
> background. This results in /etc/acpi/sleep_suspend.sh calling
> pm-suspend before the locking has been done.

This is not true, this commit only merges some patches. The real commit was
d2d1c0a283de8695f3681fb211e49633f11cba18. You can see its history on
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593303.

> Upon resuming from sleep, the screen is displayed for a second before
> the screensaver fades the screen and locks it. Some users consider this
> a security issue.

I tend to agree, although a second seems to be stretching it. 

> Simply removing the backgrounding &'s fixes the issue.

But re-open #593303. Surely security is mor eimportant than speed, but maybe we
can find a way to satisfy both.

Michael
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