Problem when trying to use -nolock Option

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu Jul 1 14:45:00 GMT 2010


On 01/07/2010 06:53, Mathias Friesenbichler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply. But you didn’t get my problem.
>
> We are several users running X servers over several computers, but starting the X from the same Installation on the network.

I see.  You didn't mention this before.

I don't think that's a supported way of running cygwin.

Things would probably work better if you set the mount table for each computer 
so it had /tmp mounted on a local disk, rather than having them all share one.

> So the local Computer doesn’t know anything about the other users and therefore we have written a program that manages this problem for us. This program gives each user a unique display number.
>
> The problem now is that if I use the “-nolock” option it does the same as if I don’t use it. It also creates those lockfiles.
>
> So what can I do to fix this?

The "/tmp/.X11-unix/Xn" files are not lock files.  They are unix domain sockets.

You could avoid them being created by using '-nolisten unix', which probably 
avoids this specific problem.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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