/tmp/hald-local and /tmp/hald-runner

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 10:30 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > These two directories are vital for HAL to startup.  Yet I do not see
> > them created anywhere.  If they are not created manually prior to
> > starting hald, then hald will die.  I checked the dbus code, but they do
> > not appear to be created there, either.  I'm wondering how this works on
> > Linux.  My thoughts on fixing this were to add mkdir(2) calls to
> > hald_dbus.c and hald_runner.c just before dbus_server_listen() is
> > called.
> 
> Aren't they abstract sockets in Linux? Abstract sockets don't have 
> filesystem representation, so they are not affected by the problem you 
> described. 

That is correct.

> On Solaris, I create these directories in the hal startup 
> script. 

Maybe hald should create them when starting up?

> I was also thinking about moving them somewhere safer, such as 
> /var/run/hal.

Sounds good with me.

    David