Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 14.03.08 12:27, Colin Walters (walters at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:51 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > The problem here is that /var/run is usually cleaned up during bootup,
> > so it's usually fine to just do a kill(pid, 0) to detect whether a
> > daemon is already running. However, PA runs as user daemon and thus
> > cannot write to /var/run. I thus chose /tmp/ copying X and esd a
> > bit. Which is admittedly a bad idea, and also introduces a (minor)
> > security issue.
> 
> The best thing to do is to use the DBus session bus.  Have pulseaudio
> grab a bus name such as org.pulseaudio.SessionDaemon.

Uh? Grab a name for nothing? Also, this would prohibit multiple
instances of PA for different users.

> Pid files and using /tmp is inherently racy and broken.

Sure, I acknowledge that.

Lennart

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