[PATCH wayland 2/2] support specifying custom directories for the client and server

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:02:22 +0200
Jussi Laako <jussi.laako at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 19.11.2014 12:56, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > I have very hard time deciding if we should allow the environment to
> > overwrite the server and client assumptions on where the socket is. It
> > would be easier for me to accept new API functions that operate with
> > absolute paths or existing fds explicitly, but those of course require
> > both servers and clients to be written to use them.
> 
> A bit tricky part in current Weston is case where you use 
> wayland-backend. In this case Weston is client to another Weston and in 
> addition server providing a socket to it's client. In this setup the 
> server is sort of proxy between lower level server and the client.
> 
> Since both instances solely use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, the wayland-backend 
> client weston is trying to connect to a socket there are create a new 
> socket with same name in the same place...
> 
> The change is intended to allow a way to tell this second weston where 
> to look for the client socket and where to place the server socket. 
> Usually these two are not the same place...

We don't have that problem anymore upstream. Now, if a socket file is
already taken, Weston just tries the next one until it finds a free
name, starts listening there, and exports WAYLAND_DISPLAY to
its own clients accordingly.

Before that was fixed, you could already use a command line argument to
use a socket with a different name.

However, all upstream cases will use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, which probably is
not appropriate for your use case, depending on how you actually start
things.


Thanks,
pq