Bug#521075: xorg-xserver: Race condition in /usr/bin/xvfb-run causes concurrent invocations to fail

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

tag 521075 - patch
kthxbye

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:12:36 -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> We have users that sometimes run xvfb-run multiple times concurrently for
> running builds. They tell me there is a >50% chance that doing so will cause a
> failure due to a race condition in how the server number is determined.
> 
> One of our users provided me with a patch for the problem. Could you please
> consider incorporating this into a future release?
> 
Ubuntu ended up using this patch (LP: 348052), and then reverting it
again because it "prevents running multiple times" (LP: 357338).
Removing the patch tag.

Cheers,
Julien