[PATCH] Always use server-<display>.xkm for xkbcomp output files

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 14:04 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> The attached patch is code we've used in Xsun for years, and our Sun Ray
> people recently hit the same issue again in their Xorg 1.2-based Xnewt
> server port.   It simply changes the Xserver to always use a filename
> containing the display number for xkm output, so that if two servers are
> starting at once with the same keymap they don't overwrite or delete
> each other's xkm files.    While we're probably more likely to hit this
> on Sun Ray servers which can have hundreds of X servers running, I think
> it could also hit a single user machine with :0 & :1 starting on different
> vt's at the same time.
> 
> (Of course, the oft-mentioned change of not forking xkbcomp to compile to
>  xkm would also solve this, but this is a much simpler short-term fix.)
> 
> Does this look good to everyone?   Anyone know of a reason it would not
> be a good idea?

Hey, it deletes code, how can it not be good.

Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>

- ajax
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