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RE: errors when switching users (security hole?)
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:48:22 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: RE: errors when switching users (security hole?)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: spetreolle at users dot sourceforge dot net
Alexander, dont you think startxwin.bat should exit
if XWin fails to start ?
This should be pretty easy to support in a batch file :
start XWin -multiwindow
if not errorlevel 0 goto badexit
--- Kris Thielemans <kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk> a écrit : > >
> > This is normal behaviour.
>
> well, I doubt that you would get your xterm on somebody else's screen
> on
> Linux, but I see what you mean.
>
> By the way, would it be a good idea to abort startxwin.bat when it
> didn't
> manage to remove .X11-unix? That way, at least the user could be
> warned
> she's doing something wrong.
>
=====
Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net)
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