On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:15 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:38 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > Orthogonal to whether koji can or should let you do it, this came up in > > the context of another discussion today. I think what we'll end up > > doing is something like: > > > > Xvfb -displayfd 3 3>& /tmp/whatever > > > > to give the server a way of both picking a free display number, and > > communicating it back to the launching process. Does that sound like > > it'd work for you? > > The xvfb-run helper I added to Xvfb in rawhide might also be useful for > this purpose, depending on the number of things that need to launch. That was actually the trigger for the "other discussion". Kristian was a bit miffed about adding a few thousand lines of shell to achieve what ought to be done directly in the server in like twenty lines of C. So, expect that script to go away. - ajax
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