X failures if two users
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Fri Jul 16 05:44:00 GMT 2004
If two people use the same machine, and the first starts X, the second
person can't start X unless they have administrator rights.
Cygwin sets /tmp to have mode drwxrwxrwt which means ordinary users
can't remove /tmp/XWin.log if it's owned by someone else. So
subsequent attempts to start X fail because it can't write the log file.
My suggestion would be for X to create the file called
/tmp/XWin.log.$USER
luke
PS:
Note that unlike Unix, it is possible for a user to remove a file that
some other user created in a directory with the above permissions,
provided they have administrator privileges on a machine.
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