New paths for Wayland sockets (Re: Enabling Android-style per application user ids)

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:42:42 +0000
Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 3 November 2017 at 07:33, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > - when the current socket search fails, add one more place to look
> >   in: /run/wayland/$WAYLAND_DISPLAY with the default "wayland-0" if
> >   WAYLAND_DISPLAY is not set.  
> 
> NAK. It's a surprising change in behaviour which could catch people
> who could reasonably expect other behaviour. It doesn't play well with
> each session expecting to be able to create a socket called
> 'wayland-0', which is separated by $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR being different
> per session.

Hi all,

obviously the /run/wayland option would be most useful for systems that
will only ever run a single graphical session at a time, in other words,
appliances, maybe tablets and phones, but not traditional/desktop
computers.

For the record, I'd never have libwayland-server automatically create
the /run/wayland socket.

It seems concensus is turning towards supporting absolute paths in
WAYLAND_DISPLAY, with the /run/wayland proposal being more
controversial. As the latter can be trivially realized with the former,
I think we have a conclusion: absolute path support is good.

I would hope someone will resurrect the patch and send it, I can review
it for one, I'd like another maintainer Reviewed-by on it as well, and
please do explicitly post your Acked-by's for the patch.

If the /run/wayland proposal is still really wanted, it can be raised
again after we have the absolute path support in WAYLAND_DISPLAY.


Thanks,
pq
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