From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5530EEA2.6000903@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150416162146.GD3657@calimero.vinschen.de>
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.
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxtrans/tree/Xtransutil.c#n591
> $ gdb XWin
> [...]
> Reading symbols from XWin...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//usr/bin/XWin.exe.dbg...done.
> done.
> (gdb) b fchown
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x10057aa80
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /usr/bin/XWin
> Breakpoint 1, 0x000000010057aa80 in fchown ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x000000010057aa80 in fchown ()
> #1 0x0000000100573bac in trans_mkdir (mode=1023, path=0x1005b47c8 <__func__.16196+2499> "/tmp/.X11-unix") at /usr/include/X11/Xtrans/Xtransutil.c:591
> [...]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-17 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-15 16:04 Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 14:25 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-04-16 16:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 16:29 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-04-16 16:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 21:05 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-04-16 21:17 ` Ian Lambert
2015-04-17 7:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-17 13:17 ` Ian Lambert
2015-04-17 16:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 21:20 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-04-17 7:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 16:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 19:49 ` Denis Excoffier
2015-04-17 7:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-17 11:29 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2015-04-17 12:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-16 16:53 ` Bryan Berns
2015-04-17 8:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-17 10:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-17 10:57 ` Bryan Berns
2015-04-17 11:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
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