Hi, for jack-autostart i need to store some data in a per-user file across the lifetime of the jackd process. It's a pretty typical tempfile, when the process goes away, it will be considered stale, when the system is rebooted, it should be discarded. It may exist once per user.
Since i already use $HOME/.config for configuration data, which more precisely is the default setting of XDG_CONFIG_HOME (according to [1]), i would like to consider the pendant XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for the tempfile i have described. Unfortunately, the specification [1] does not provide a default for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as it does for XDG_CONFIG_HOME. In Ubuntu, there used to be libpam-xdg-support (see [2]). It sets up a directory in "/run/user", if neccessary, at login time of the user. More recently, this task has been assumed by pam-systemd (see [3]). Question open for debate: On a systemd-free system, should an alternative exist which assumes the task of initializing XDG envvars as described by [1] in the way done by [3]? Kind regards, T. Links: [1] freedesktop.org. XDG Base Directory Specification. URL: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html [2] Ubuntu Launchpad. pam-xdg-support. URL: https://launchpad.net/pam-xdg-support [3] freedesktop.org. pam_systemd. URL: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/pam_systemd.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
