Akonadi's unix sockets location

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 16:43:16 UTC 2010


On 03/16/2010 12:29 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Daniel J Walsh<dwalsh at redhat.com>  wrote:
>    
>> PLEASE do not use /tmp for communications.  Use /var/run if the service is
>> running as root, or can create a socket in /var/run.
>>      
> In this case I believe it's a per-user service.  In which case you
> don't have much of a choice, because you can't use $HOME or you'll be
> broken by the sysadmins that inflict NFS on users.
>
> The dbus session socket is currently in /tmp, but with a random name,
> and the session bus rejects connections by processes not matching its
> own uid.
>    
Ok if they are from the same login session and same UID it is reasonable 
to expect them to share /tmp.


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