Re: xvfb-run oddity

Martin Costabel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/11/14 14:05, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Daniel,
>        I have also reproduced this failure to start Xquartz via
> xvfb-run on 10.8 after
> a fresh reboot against Xquartz 2.7.8 beta1. So i don't believe the OS
> release has
> anything to do with the bug.

I am not sure I understand completely what Xvfb or xvfb-run are supposed 
to do (except for not crashing with an error message, of course), but it 
seems to me that Xfvb *is* an X server, so it would not need to start 
Xquartz. But apparently it needs to acquire root privileges for creating 
/tmp/.X11-unix when this directory does not exist, and creating a socket 
inside. How does Xquartz do this when it is not started as root?

-- 
Martin



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