[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[Ryan Lortie]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 01:26 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> If somebody wants to add that to CK then that is fine. However, I do
> believe the right place for this is actually systemd, since we can
> safely bind the per-user systemd instance, the dbus user bus, the
> existance of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to the kernel cgroup that makes up the
> session. With all that in place we will have definition of a session
> that transcends all layers of our stack.

This is intensely valuable.  dconf has all kinds of hell caused by the
fact that nothing is of the same duration.  Knowing that the lifecycle
of dconf's shared memory file, dconf's process and dconf's DBus daemon
are all exactly the same would help greatly.

Cheers