Bug#747894: Please standardize the shared memory directory
Package: xorg-server
Version: 2:1.15.1-1
Severity: important
Hi,
The libxshmfence package is explicitly setting the shared memory
directory to /tmp (with-shared-memory-dir) while the xorg-server lets
the configure script autodetect it (and then ends up using /run/shm).
These two packages should probably use the same directory.
I would propose to use /dev/shm as it is the defacto-standard (eglibc
is using this), compatible with the FHS and mounted by all the
initsystem (either directly or with a symlink).
Cheers,
Laurent Bigonville
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