Bug#625512: xauth should have an option to wait for the lock to be released
Package: xauth
Version: 1:1.0.5-1
Severity: wishlist
I did two ssh to the same machine at the same time, with the
consequence for one of them:
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/vinc17/.Xauthority
It would be better if xauth had an option to wait for the lock
to be released (with a timeout) instead of returning an error.
This would avoid to have to find a workaround, such as writing
a wrapper that does a real blocking lock.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xauth depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library
ii libxext6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
xauth recommends no packages.
xauth suggests no packages.
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