Comment 33 for bug 199486

> --- Comment #11 from Jeremy Huddleston <email address hidden> 2011-10-04 11:53:02 PDT ---
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > Hrm. What about the comments from Loic?
>
> I don't think our comments conflict. Loic was concerned about adding
> dependencies, and I was suggesting making them soft rather than hard
> dependencies.
>
Comment #7 and comment #9 sound conflicting to me, but ok.

> The only real concern that I see is Michael's:
>
> > Typically xinit is not run as a root, so the user does not have enough
> > permissions to create a session with parameters.
> > I question weather or not we should try to move this call into X? X is setuid
> > root.
>
> I admit that I did not read that comment the first time through as it was
> collapsed in my view of the bug. On darwin, we trigger a LaunchDaemon in
> startx to do some privileged actions for xinit (like creating /tmp/.X11-unix).
> How is this currently handled on other OSs? Still as an init script?
>
At least on Debian, yes, /tmp/.X11-unix is created on boot by an init
script.