Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

[<fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>]

Thank you:

No, I now think (on looking at a file /cygdrive/c/tmp/XWin.log, brought into
being by defining the link described in my previous email) that the problem
seems not to be with the creation of this file, but with the creation of the
directory /tmp/.X11-unix. (The file XWin.log says:

    _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix) failed, errno
= 17
    _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for
local
    Fatal server error:
    Failed to establish all listening sockets
    winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress
    winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

and the "noting shutdown in progress" must be what I have described as XWin
"dies".) So: is there a way I can try to get this directory (and,
specifically, I suppose, its contents) written to /cygdrive/c/tmp/ rather
than to /tmp/?

Fergus

PS: Entirely unrelated question. When I start XWin from a conventional HD
full installation of Cygwin, on a broadband 24-hour internet-connected
machine, it evidently accesses the web. (I know this, because when Norton is
up and running, I can tell that XWin specifically asks permission to do so.)
Why does it do this? As far as I can tell, if I pull the broadband plug,
Cygwin and XWin still work ...)