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Re: extensions (shared mem, security)
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:31:09 +0000
- Subject: Re: extensions (shared mem, security)
- References: <4B27DCE4.7090801@tlinx.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 15/12/2009 19:00, Linda Walsh wrote:
looking at the startup log, I don't see the X-Security extension being
initialized. Is it not supported?
Also discussed in the Cyginw/X FAQ at [1]
Also, perhaps more important for me is the message:
2009-12-15 10:39:27 XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization
disabled
due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
NT supports shared memory objects and I thought cygwin uses shared
memory for cross-process communication. So what's this about X not
knowing about the shared memory support?
I don't know how this can be made clearer than [2]
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#AEN569
[2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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