Comment 28 for bug 984785

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Karolis (reklamukibiras) wrote :

really sorry for tripleposting, but on the fly bug research lead me to this:

the bug is related to "X Window authorization" or "xauth"
according to wikipedia a cookie based access:
"These cookies are created by a separate program and stored in the file .Xauthority in the user's home directory, by default."
if i run `strings .Xauthority` i get almost the same as in .goutputstream*DW:
<3 identical lines (check two posts up)>
<2 lines that repeats the first two>

question remains - how do these .Xauthority get's partially duplicated into bunch of .goutputstream* on every shutdown?