Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Race condition when using vncserver script

2012-04-26 Thread DRC
On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Arthur Huillet wrote: > On 24.04.2012 21:22, DRC wrote: > > -fg is not relevant in my case unfortunately, but I doubt it would > solve the underlying theoretical issue anyway. Well, all I can say is that there are thousands of people using TurboVNC in multi-user

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Race condition when using vncserver script

2012-04-26 Thread Arthur Huillet
On 24.04.2012 21:22, DRC wrote: > On 4/24/12 5:34 AM, Arthur Huillet wrote: > Bear in mind that TurboVNC was shipped by Sun as a product for 4 > years, > and it was designed to be run in an SGE environment. You probably > need > to launch it with the -fg switch when running in SGE. -fg is not

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Race condition when using vncserver script

2012-04-24 Thread DRC
On 4/24/12 5:34 AM, Arthur Huillet wrote: > Looking at the script, there's a pretty obvious race condition. > (by the way: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2007-April/057455.html > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3123682&group_id=14067&atid=114067 > ) > > The script loops

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Race condition when using vncserver script

2012-04-24 Thread Arthur Huillet
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:55:40 -0500 DRC wrote: > TurboVNC's version of vncserver isn't doing anything substantially > different from the equivalent script in RealVNC, TigerVNC, etc. in terms > of picking the display number. Looking at the script, there's a pretty obvious race condition. (by the w

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Race condition when using vncserver script

2012-04-24 Thread DRC
On 4/24/12 4:47 AM, Arthur Huillet wrote: > there seems to be some kind of race condition when starting multiple > "vncserver" at the same time. > The scripts seem to pick the same DISPLAY value to us, so only one of them > succeeds because Xvnc can't be started twice on the same DISPLAY. > > Is