On Thursday, July 3, 2025 5:23:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time David Venhoek 
wrote:

:::snip:::
> would prefer. As we see it, there are two obvious approaches:
> 
> 1) Make the root directory for these sockets configurable via a command
> line flag. This could be complemented with a command on the control socket
> to change it dynamically, but perhaps this is one of the rare cases where
> that doesn't really make much sense.
> 2) Make the location of the socket configurable on a per-device basis, both
> in the command line interface and via the control socket.

As someone whose opinion and twenty bucks will get you a a side of fries, I 
suggest the third.

III) Start gpsd as an non-privileged user of a group that can read/write the 
serial and PPS devices.

IIRC it requires some added capability on Linux to generate the PPS device 
node; other systems need not apply.

Your proposals are anathema to the brittle nature of gpsd.



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