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Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied! froma startxwin.bat
- From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo dot Graziosi at roma1 dot infn dot it>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: john at morrison dot mine dot nu
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:43:53 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied! froma startxwin.bat
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 19,2005 08:34:14 John Morrison wrote
>On Thu, May 19, 2005 12:01 am, Angelo Graziosi said:
>>
>> With this new release there is a
>>
>> Permission denied
>>
>> when a NOT-ADMIN user starts the X system (startxwin.bat)
>> ====================
>>
>> He has not access to remove .X11-unix (see startxwin.bat) when /tmp has
>> the "t" permission.
>>
>> Every user (or only Administrator?) should remove manually .X11-unix
>> before the disconnetion from the machine.
>>
>> In this case there is not "permission denied" for the simple user.
>>
>> angelo.
>
>
> Sorry, I don't use startxwin.bat, I can't help with that. 3.4-2 simply
> 2>/dev/null's the error, perhaps startxwin.bat should too?
>
> J.
To hide, in "2>/dev/null's", the conflict between the necessity to have
"t" for /tmp and the fact that using CYGWIN by NOT-ADMIN. user does not
like this is not very exciting!
This can be accepted only as temporary patch waiting a more complete fix.
I do not know if "startxwin.bat", for NOT-ADMIN user, should hide
"Permission denied" in "2>/dev/null's".
This should be fixed by "ago".
bye
angelo.