Running Xvfb during a package build -- good idea?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Oct 1 15:48:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:38:35AM -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

Make sure /tmp/whatever is randomly generated and that you clean it up when
you're done. 

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences




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