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xon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Fri Nov 1 08:33:37 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 13:31:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
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xon has a small bug. Without the following patch, the -user option is
liable not to work.
--- /home/phil/xon Fri Nov 1 13:29:02 1996
+++ /usr/X11R6/bin/xon Sun Oct 20 11:42:33 1996
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
shift
case x$XAUTHORITY in
x)
- XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority"
+ XAUTHORITY="\$HOME/.Xauthority"
;;
esac
case x$XUSERFILESEARCHPATH in
For those who want the gory details, the problem is that without the
backslash, $HOME gets expanded on the _local_ machine, although the
resulting filename is used to refer to your authority file on the _remote_
machine. Usually this doesn't matter, because $HOME will be
/home/username on both machines. But if you have different usernames on
the two machines, or if your home directories are in different places, it
is liable to go wrong.
phil
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