Akonadi's unix sockets location

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 08:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Juha Tuomala wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>> How about setting that as default, away from $HOME that can be a NFS
> >>> filesystem?
> >>
> >> Indeed, a solution similar to kde's
> >> ~/.kde/socket-<hostname> => /tmp/ksocket-<username>
> >> symlink is likely needed here too.
> > 
> > Symlinks are duct-tape, why not just set it to /tmp with
> > global rc file?
> 
> Sure, but still need to encode username into the filename (or randomize/uniq 
> it) somehow.
> 

Any reason this cannot be an abstract socket ? Of course, then you have
to check peer creds and figure out a way to communicate the socket name,
but at least you don't have to worry about the usual races and
permission problem you have with unix sockets.