[pulseaudio-discuss] Issue with cookie creation on windows

[Michael DePaulo]

Should I file this as a bug report?

Also, I just retested this with PulseAudio 4.99.3 on the same windows
7 system. The issue was still present, but there was 1 difference:

if I set the environment variable:
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=C:\Users\mike\
Then this cookie is created along with its parent dirs:
C:\Users\mike\.config\pulse\cookie
And this empty directory is created:
C:\Users\mike\pulse

-Mike

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I've discovered a bug in the way the cookies are created since
> 3.0 changed the default location of the cookies in order to adhere to
> the XDG Base Directory Specification
>
> Or maybe I am just calling/using PulseAudio incorrectly..
>
> If I run:
> C:\Program Files\x2goclient\pulseaudio-3.0-win32>pulseaudio.exe -F
> c:\Users\mike\x2go-temp\config.pa
>
> where config.pa contains the lines:
> load-module module-native-protocol-tcp port=4713
> load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp port=4714
> load-module module-waveout
>
> Then a cookie is created at along with its parent dirs:
> C:\Users\mike\.config\pulse\cookie
>
> If I override the environment variable USERPROFILE from
> "C:\Users\mike\" to any other value, then the cookie is still created
> relative to that variable.
>
> However, if I set the environment variable:
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=C:\Users\mike\
> Then this directory is created along with its parent dirs, but the
> cookie is not:
> C:\Users\mike\.config\pulse\
>
> If I set this environment variable instead:
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME=C:\Users\mike\
> Then this directory is created along with its parent dirs, but the
> cookie is not:
> C:\Users\mike\pulse\mothership-7-32-runtime\
> (mothership-7-32 is this VM's hostname)
>
> Finally, if I set both aforementioned XDG environment variables,
> Then this directory is created, and the cookie is not:
> C:\Users\mike\pulse\
>
> -Mike DePaulo
> win32 Package Maintainer for the X2Go Project