[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 17 12:29, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 16/04/2015 17:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Btw., it would be nice to know why XWin tries to chown a file.
> >Jon?
> 
> This seems to be in trans_mkdir() in libxtrans [1], which tries to make sure
> that /tmp/.X11-unix (the directory in which the server's unix-domain sockets
> are created) is owned by uid 0, gid 0.

Yep, that is in line with the observation.  Thanks for confirming.
Such an fchown is bound to fail, of course, but it did so before and
XWin didn't gripe, so I assume it doesn't check the return value.


Corinna

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