From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62641 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2016 02:03:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 62609 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2016 02:03:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=informing, H*r:Unknown, Emacs, shutdown X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 02:03:04 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDicI-0004kA-KY for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 03:02:54 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Will Parsons Subject: left-over .serverauth.#### files Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 02:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (FreeBSD) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 For quite a while, I've noticed an accumulation of .serverauth.#### files on entering a Cygwin environment. Since it's been only a minor annoyance, I've dealt with it by running a small script to delete all but the latest instance. Finally, though, I thought I should solve the root problem of why these files were being left over, and started to investigate. For some reason, I had always assumed they had something to do with running Emacs in server mode, but apparently, they have nothing to do with Emacs, but are a result of not shutting down an X session "cleanly". I suppose that's true enough - I don't start X automatically, and when shutting down, never think to make an explicit shutdown of X. It seems like there should be a way of informing X to clean up on exit, but I'm not sure how. I'm starting X from a shortcut that runs startxwin. -- Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple