compositor-drm: Allow running without launcher if effective UID is 0

This lets us keep running weston as root or setuid root.

diff --git a/src/compositor-drm.c b/src/compositor-drm.c
index 6e0a126..5fccace 100644 (file)
--- a/src/compositor-drm.c
+++ b/src/compositor-drm.c
@@ -2167,9 +2167,9 @@ drm_compositor_create(struct wl_display *display,
        }
 
        /* Check if we run drm-backend using weston-launch */
-       if (ec->base.launcher_sock == -1) {
+       if (ec->base.launcher_sock == -1 && geteuid() != 0) {
                weston_log("fatal: drm backend should be run "
-                          "using weston-launch binary\n");
+                          "using weston-launch binary or as root\n");
                goto err_compositor;
        }