[pulseaudio-discuss] Server specification strings: pulseaudio.1 or Wiki?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 09:46 -0600, Glenn Golden wrote:
> Seems to be an inconsistency between the documented syntax for server
> specification strings as discussed in pulseaudio.1 (V5.0) vs. the Wiki page:
> 
>     http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/ServerStrings/
> 
> The latter appears to be a superset of the former, allowing specification of
> local servers via the socket path. (And a few other bells/whistles).
> 
> I tried the /path/to/socket form with pactl, it seems to work, so I'm assuming
> the Wiki format is currently what's implemented in the libs. Is this right,
> or is there some funny business where the permitted syntax can be restricted
> to only the man page form?  (Or something like this)...?

The syntax is always the same. The man page is just missing some of the
details.

-- 
Tanu