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href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62092">bug 62092</a>
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<pre>Explanation for current behavior by pq here:
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/007902.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/007902.html</a>
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<span class="quote">> 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.</span >
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<span class="quote">> For example, falling back to anything under $HOME will fail for
> nfs-mounted home, I believe.</span >
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<span class="quote">> The requirements for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are actually quite difficult
> to fill without specific distribution support. Especially the following:</span >
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<span class="quote">> "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."</span >
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<span class="quote">> - <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html</a></span >
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<span class="quote">> 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.</span ></pre>
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