On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, J Jude wrote:
>
> > JJ> > In the long run, the Cygwin/X11 distribution should work for
> > JJ> > limited users out-of-the-box.
> >
> > IP> I don't think Cygwin/X was ever designed to run by multiple users
> > IP> simultaneously.
> >
> > We're not talking about simultaneously. In the simple case, we're
> > talking about a user logging in as administrator to do some system
> > task, then logging out and logging in to a limited user account for
> > other tasks.
>
> I understood that. I was debating with myself whether to expand on what I
> said or not -- guess I should have. By "simultaneously" I meant "from the
> same installation" (yes, I know, poor choice of words).
>
> Actually, I believe the only thing that's messing it up is /tmp/XWin.log
> (which is a Cygwin/X invention -- Linux creates a display-specific file in
> /var/log instead). The socket is actually already display-specific, and
> the only thing wrong with it is that Cygwin/X chooses display :0 by
> default, and that clashes with the socket (it's debatable whether it
^
causes name
> should try to find the next available display number or not).
> Theoretically, Cygwin/X should also clean up the socket after itself.
> Neither a display-specific log file nor socket cleanup happen in Cygwin/X.
>
> I suppose someone has to do it, and patches would be welcome upstream, but
> we are currently missing a Cygwin/X maintainer, so it's unlikely that
> anything will be done about this until we get one.
> Igor
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