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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:53:41 +0100
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Am 10.03.2011 15:40, schrieb Jon TURNEY:
> On 09/03/2011 19:29, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> For example if cygwin is still installed on a FAT drive (I know ...) it may be
>> useful (for all users) to switch /tmp to an NTFS directory (e.g. XWin used to
>> fail with a FAT /tmp for a while).
> This is wrong on several counts.
>
> XWin still fails with /tmp on FAT.  This is because XWin uses hardlinks to
> create it's lock file, and cygwin can't support hardlinks on FAT because the
> filesystem doesn't support them.
>
> XWin uses the literal path /tmp.  A lock file which appears in a different
> place depending on an environment variable wouldn't be much of a lock file.
Oops, you're right. Actually the workaround I used here is to remount /tmp
('mount -f C:/tmp /tmp' in a profile; I could have checked that...)

Thomas

> If you actually have this problem with XWin, you should use the server option
> -nolock.
>
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