https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62092
Darxus <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Darxus <[email protected]> --- Explanation for current behavior by pq here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/007902.html Contents: > But still, Emilio, the reason we on purpose fail on missing > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is that there is no suitable "replacement directory > with similar capabilities" to be found in general. > > For example, falling back to anything under $HOME will fail for > nfs-mounted home, I believe. > > The requirements for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are actually quite difficult > to fill without specific distribution support. Especially the following: > > "The directory MUST be on a local file system and not shared with > any other system. The directory MUST by fully-featured by the > standards of the operating system. More specifically, on Unix-like > operating systems AF_UNIX sockets, symbolic links, hard links, > proper permissions, file locking, sparse files, memory mapping, > file change notifications, a reliable hard link count must be > supported, and no restrictions on the file name character set > should be imposed." > > - http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > Therefore we want the user to explicitly shoot himself in the > foot if they have to. We actually used to have a fallback for > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR being unset, and it only caused confusion. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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