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Re: FHS compliance and UNIX sockets



Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Now what on earth does that mean? The user who needs to create the
> file/socket?

> Using /var/run/<package> would be a serious limitation unless you made it
> drwxrwxrwt (or used setUID/setGID stuff), because multiple users can use
> these programs at the same time.

Yes, but presumably there is a daemon process which runs under a single uid.
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