Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

[Pille Geert (bizvdm)]

Hallo Fergus,

would it not be possible with cygwin to mount /tmp as an in-memory
filesystem?

Geert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net [mailto:fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net]
> Sent: woensdag 10 december 2003 22:31
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
> Subject: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails
> 
> 
> I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced 
> in one way or
> another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs.
> Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By 
> observing which files
> were written where, and as a consequence  setting up links using
>     ln -s /dev/null /tmp/Xwin.log
>     ln -s /dev/null /var/run/utmp
> it really seemed that I had addressed all problems: in repeated uses,
> nothing new was written to the stick at all. I then burned a CD, but
> disappointingly XWin "dies" as soon as it is started. That 
> is, I start the
> process with bash, and then try
>     XWin -multiwindow &
> which I would normally follow with
>     rxvt -display localhost:0.0 -e bash
> but XWin does not persist. (Sorry: I don't know how to 
> express what happens
> other than to say it "dies" immediately.)
> This is VERY disappointing. Any clues to what else I might try?
> By the way, in mounting the portable version, I have already 
> established
> that the directory /cygdrive/c/tmp/ must exist, so I suppose 
> I could try
>     ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp/XWin.log /tmp/XWin.log
> before burning to CD. (I've already made 5 coasters. At this 
> rate I'll be
> able to floor the bathroom.)
> Thanks.
> Fergus
> 
> 


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