Re: FHS compliance and UNIX sockets

["Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo" <jkaivo@elijah.nodomainname.net>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> >>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     >> From the FHS: (v2.1, same section) Note: programs that run as
>     >> non-root users may be unable to create fil es under /var/run
>     >> and therefore need a subdirectory owned by the appropriate
>     >> user.
> 
>     Oliver> So the package should provide /var/run/<package> for them
>     Oliver> to use?
> 
> Depends on how you interpret: "...owned by the appropriate user".
> 
> 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.

I would use ${HOME}/.${PACKAGE}/some-socket if a user needed a socket
(similar to emacs's (start-server) sometimes using ~/.eserv (I think)
as the socket).