Thanks all for the answer. There's a catch, though. I just checked in a classic Ubuntu what the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR env is set to for root. And, surprise, it's not set. So, since my app has to run as root, it seems that I'll have to check this possibility too.
--Luca On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 3:47 AM, XiaoGuo Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Seth, > > Thanks. You are right. I just created a new dir under the root, and I tried > to access it, and it was successful this time. > > liuxg@liuxg:~/snappy/desktop$ sudo snap run --shell hello.env > [sudo] password for liuxg: > root@liuxg:/home/liuxg/snappy/desktop# cd /run/user/0/snap.hello > root@liuxg:/run/user/0/snap.hello# ls > > Many thanks > Best regards, > XiaoGuo > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Seth Arnold <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:33:20AM +0800, XiaoGuo Liu wrote: >> > liuxg@liuxg:~/snappy/desktop/ss$ hello.env | grep XDG_RUNTIME >> > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000/snap.hello >> > $ sudo snap run --shell hello.env >> > # env | grep XDG_RUNTIME_DIR >> > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0/snap.hello >> >> Your first command was run as a standard user, probably the first user >> installed on the system, since it is user 1000. >> >> Your second command was run as root via the sudo tool, thus you get a >> different directory. Every user's data should be stored in a place where >> it won't collide with other users, and root is no different in this case. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Snapcraft mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft >> > > > > -- > XiaoGuo, Liu > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > -- Snapcraft mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
