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Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?



Jon TURNEY wrote:
> 
> On 06/10/2010 16:10, davidstvz wrote:
>> I have done additional testing on this problem and it seems that the
>> first
>> user to login and run 'startxwin' owns all of the log and lock files and
>> this is what is causing the problem.  The first user can continue using
>> xwin
>> without issues, but no other users can do it after that.
>>
>> If someone would upgrade xwin to to make these file names unique for each
>> user it should solve the problem.  Meanwhile, I'm envisioning several
>> workarounds.
> 
> The log file issue is discussed and a workaround given at [1]
> 
> The lock file should be removed on xwin exit, so should not be a problem
> unless xwin is crashing for you, in which case report that problem.
> 
> Making the lock file name unique per user is a non-solution, as it
> prevents it 
> from locking against multiple simultaneous uses of the same display
> number.
> 
> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-08/msg00090.html
> 
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Ah, I see how that is a non-solution.  I should stick to what I know.

In any case, XWin is not crashing per se, instead when I type "exit" from
the initial xterminal and exit cygwin (or press the windows close button) it
remains running in the background.  So to open it again, I have to first
terminate it from the task manager which I suppose qualifies as a crash.

I've solved the problem by scheduling a task to delete the log and lock
files when any user logs in (well, to mostly delete; windows refuses to let
me delete the socket file descriptor so I had to rename it to a random
number).
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