Can't using fat32 drive as /tmp

[Jon TURNEY]

On 31/10/2009 10:11, Lenik wrote:
> I'm used to using ramdisk (assigned to drive X:, FAT-32) as tmp directory,
>
> Fatal server error:
> Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file

It even says you can't have the lock file on a FAT volume.

> The lock file isn't created in /tmp when error dialog pops.
> (If I add -nolock to XWin in startxwin.sh, it says invalid option. )

Then you are managing to mis-specify the option somehow, it is a valid one.

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Jon TURNEY
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