[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2] core-util: Fail if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR belongs to someone else

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 13:53 -0600, Glenn Golden wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> [2014-09-08 15:22:22 +0200]:
> >
> > If none of the above is present, all of the list below will be is tried, in
> > this priority order:
> > 
> >  5) Per-user instance:
> >  5a) based on PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH
> >  5b) based on XDG_CONFIG_DIR (if no PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH)
> >  5c) based on ~/.pulse (if no XDG_CONFIG_DIR)
> >  5d) based on XDG_CONFIG_HOME (if ~/.pulse does not already exist)
> >  5e) based on ~/.config/pulse (if no XDG_CONFIG_HOME)
> > 
> 
> In 5b-c, is it possible that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR was intended? I can't find any
> doc for envar XDG_CONFIG_DIR in the XDG Base Directory Spec (although there 
> is an XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, but that seems like that's intended for configuration
> stuff rather than for locating runtime files like the socket or pidfile...)
> 
> If XDG_CONFIG_DIR was intended (or perhaps just a typo, intended to be ...DIRS) 
> then how/where does XDG_RUNTIME_DIR itself come into the picture?

David meant XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when he wrote XDG_CONFIG_DIR (I'm sure,
because I checked the code).

-- 
Tanu