On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 22:03:32 +0200 "Fred ." <eldman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#variables > > "If $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set applications should fall back to a > replacement directory with similar capabilities and print a warning > message." > > Weston produces the following error message when XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set. > [21:43:53.365] fatal: environment variable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set. Yeah, but there is no replacement we know of. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-June/003935.html And another quote from IRC: 22:52 < smallfoot-> weston should work without XDG_RUNTIME_DIR 22:52 < smallfoot-> as per the spec 22:52 < smallfoot-> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#variables 22:52 < smallfoot-> "If $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set applications should fall back to a replacement directory with similar capabilities and print a warning message. " 23:20 < krh> smallfoot-: the funny thing is, there is no directory with similar capabilities 23:33 < smallfoot-> krh, oh, maybe ~/tmp/ or /tmp/ or /run/user/ ? 23:34 < smallfoot-> today mountall was updated in ubuntu from 2.38 to 2.40 which have /run/user/ and the prel iminary work for XDG_RUNTIME_SUPPORT, the other part is missing is a PAM module 23:36 < smallfoot-> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/894391 23:38 < thiago> $HOME could be network-mounted 23:38 < thiago> it could also be SMB, which means no sockets 23:38 < thiago> /tmp is insecure, since other users can write to it 23:39 < thiago> and /run/user/$USER *is* XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. If your distro creates it, why doesn't it set the v ariable? 23:43 < smallfoot-> oh 23:43 < thiago> but we could create a secure dir in /tmp And that's where it left last time. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
