Re: Unable to delete .X11-unix\X0 file

[Boris Mayer-St-Onge <boris at gmc dot ulaval dot ca>]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Boris Mayer-St-Onge wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > We have Cygwin 1.3.22-1 installed on a Windows XP sp1 machine with 
> > XFree86 4.3.0-1.  The computer is part of a domain and can be use by 
> > several users.
> >
> > The installation on Cygwin/XFree86 has been done as follow :
> >
> > 1- As Administrator, we have installed Cygwin/XFree86 on a local D:\ 
> > drive (so not at the standard folder).
> >
> > 2- We have edited the file usr\X11R6\bin\starxwin.bat to set correctly 
> > the variable CYGWIN_ROOT.
>
> You shouldn't need to do that if you are running startxwin.bat from the 
> d:\ drive and Cygwin was installed to d:\cygwin.  On the other hand, if 
> you used a directory other than d:\cygwin, you would have to set 
> CYGWIN_ROOT.

We effectively do not use the d:\cygwin directory.

> > When we run Cygwin/XFree86, everything is correct for everybody. 
> > Unfortunately, when a user close his session without exiting 
> > Cygwin/XFree86, the file tmp\.X11-unix\X0 is not deleted.  When an 
> > other user try to open Cygwin/XFree86, the application doesn't start 
> > since the file tmp\.X11-unix\X0 is present and the user is not able to 
> > delete it.  As administrator I must then delete the file.
> >
> > I have try to modify the permissions on folder tmp and tmp\.X11-unix 
> > to allow users to delete the XO file but I doesn't work.
> >
> > So my questions are :
> >
> > 1- Is the above situation normal?
> >
> > 2- If not, what should I forget to do during the installation and 
> > configuration?
> >
> > 3- If yes, is it possible to allow users to delete XO file?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for suggestions and answers.
>
>
> Short of an administrative permissions fix (which I still think should 
> work), 

I haven't found how.  Do you have suggestions?

> I can only suggest that maybe it is time we start trapping the 
> logoff/shutdown messages and call GiveUp when this happens.  I would 
> think that Windows would send the WM_QUIT or WM_CLOSE message to all 
> open applications in these cases, but I could be wrong.  Are the users 
> simply turning the machine completely off?  If so, then you would need 
> to retrain the users before looking for other solutions.

No, the users only close their session.  They know they must close 
Cygwin before log out but with the new version, with -multiwindow (we 
love it), users close the xterm but sometime forgot to close the 
Cygwin/XFree86 Server.

Boris