Re: about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2015-11-24 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Rainer Müller wrote: Ah, this is the message to which Clemens appeared to be replying. Missed it somehow... > Adding environment variables is complicated and involves interruption by > the required logout/reboot. If possible, we should avoid it and patch > the default settings for libraries and

Re: about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2015-11-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 23 2015 19:51:06 Clemens Lang wrote: Hi, > Note that $TMPDIR on OS X is already user-specific. You should not need to use > a subdirectory below it. Yeah, I know, but it still is cleaner. It's also clearly a rather common practice to store related things in a common

Re: about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2015-11-23 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, - On 23 Nov, 2015, at 18:30, Rainer Müller rai...@macports.org wrote: >> Alternatives I see: >> - $TMPDIR/runtime-username (calculated using the QSP RuntimeLocation code >> used >> on other Unix hosts) > > This sounds like a sane solution to me. Runtime directory can safely be >

about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2015-11-23 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I'd like to reach as many users and developers as possible, hence I'm asking here: Freedesktop/XDG-compliant applications may use a user-specific location for runtime "stuff" like sockets. On Linux, this location usually is something like /run/user/uid. It is typically defined globally

Re: about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2015-11-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2015-11-23 17:32, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Freedesktop/XDG-compliant applications may use a user-specific > location for runtime "stuff" like sockets. On Linux, this location > usually is something like /run/user/uid. It is typically defined > globally through the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR env.