Sorry, I just found that each snap has its own "tmp" directory created in the /tmp directory of the system. I just created a file, and it looks like:
root@liuxg:/tmp/snap.1000_snap.hello.fifo_TovLTW/tmp# ls anothefile Thanks & best regards, XiaoGuo On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:04 AM, XiaoGuo Liu <xiaoguo....@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Oli, > > Does it mean all of the snaps have the same /tmp or each snap has its own > /tmp? I am a little bit confused about this. > > Thanks & best regards, > XiaoGuo > > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Oliver Grawert <o...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> hi, >> Am Freitag, den 03.02.2017, 21:04 +0100 schrieb Luca Dionisi: >> > What is the best place to write (and read) a temporary FIFO file from >> > a confined snap application? >> > This is for simple IPC between 2 processes of the same snap. >> > Before attempting to snap the application I was using a fixed >> > filename >> > in /tmp. Admittedly poor solution. >> > The solution should be usable also with another packaging system. >> > >> well ... in case of snaps /tmp is a private directory that only your >> snap can access so it is actually a good place for such stuff ... >> >> ... that said ... if you want to use it in other packaging systems >> where this is not the case it might indeed not be the best choice and >> using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR might be the better way, as others pointed out. >> >> ciao >> oli >> -- >> Snapcraft mailing list >> Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >> an/listinfo/snapcraft >> >> > > > -- > XiaoGuo, Liu > -- XiaoGuo, Liu
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