X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=pyZkmWqrvgsv5DqmRy11KLHELicbYpG7GXcpXCqtGBOE57gO1FMzC ZVltIszPywVl+fQH8q7YkPAl+baOla27lMTC9DnWAFKMGPO7XFwCB0Sby+0Bc/1q yOWqCLUzjhRy95dqU9GHCSnFf190ogAkTRNvyv7BvEOdYm1o8vrrZQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=vf9v5SrOV1yQKQvr9LQHWBeCG+o=; b=V9mKi1AHe1r0+ylCO/oK5IKNE5i6 ZTlPe2B+jg3BV5wo3YGWvl95ZqHi4NBMTLcAgXawVUoWDw1o0xoApMaR4sa/mBNx hXz8Nr5zIWxC65VUdR7bO8gZCI3t8wrgWAv9Tr7kvgzQxuqozS5v9KEMMi3EMbTo gM0fqIweqwv13Fo= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:13:17 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5 Message-ID: <20150417121317.GZ3657@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20150416162146.GD3657@calimero.vinschen.de> <5530EEA2.6000903@dronecode.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pkBzO0lo80FoaZii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5530EEA2.6000903@dronecode.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) --pkBzO0lo80FoaZii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > This seems to be in trans_mkdir() in libxtrans [1], which tries to make s= ure > that /tmp/.X11-unix (the directory in which the server's unix-domain sock= ets > 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 --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --pkBzO0lo80FoaZii Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVMPjdAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+ggKYP/18+YnWj6nBLwsFR67bVKI50 fVm2p3g2uH5Cj27zjYHAICmLYyl/g6umv0Ret8C4A1h0MtY65AOu7VoCEBhCZ4zG +zWdZivHTK4EzTmyf8Qh/6b6gbP3Joi+6EbK5ek0e4Y8oOcNTGW2/SazWsaImjyv ITXOG5uaGPtGZnb8LjBdtLDS11b1nsybrTdXtlk1BcVSwADeT09eiuqVTdCi7Tdv 90ZzAmsullaJWRM8sq2RwJDe6ma3tvA31G+cL+AgaNmlwfHUla1cMqTpdhXkK/yG tt17Gi2O8rJTV2DSnNxkYOZEgprdsw+rg9MpAT6IJmp1hgsU70hVyxGSRbBFO2kE pxmHrHu1yb1InF2fRofX8AESLcsw9WvsELz1RnC1S/RfSIcKVCKP2osf3M6xTVV8 KRyBKbmm0fimsLVez0/R+XfSKcdoyg+V1j1GhPyv3+U7ZnDihyLN6EcePv1Oiaaq R5UfQkOkYOY/uAft0x6s6bvXoXgBxIW/sSTf/Mn6E7obfwyHrHxG7iKOrM9m+H9B bqlayvduN6eUBWi0XnltcNyjM6xQec0bIZ1k2IlAP+LZ8WJXKAAnE3xbJpXsQSYT 4GwmIoeS3vv1XqPsRqQ6UFZri/AHWPZlnI3fqZy9Wcb2P9wT5biLrmCbnBIJagax R7gaBQ/CJ0pxGU351adt =u/+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pkBzO0lo80FoaZii--