>>>>> "Bas" == Bas Wijnen <[email protected]> writes:
> Op 07-06-11 21:53, David Kuehling schreef: >> for the "alex4" port I configured the game to write save-data and >> score data to /var . >> >> Now I just realized that /var is a tmpfs that looses all data after >> reboot. >> >> Is that really intended? Where would I then write save-data to? >> /usr/share? /etc? > I would expect any program to write only to places where the user > executing the program would normally have write access. A game should > not normally be run as root, which means it should really only write > to the home directory or subdirectories of it. > The only exception is a centralized high score file, but on the Ben we > don't have multiple users, so that's a non-issue. > Following the xdg base directory specification you should use: > $HOME/.local/share for data (saves and score are both data) > $HOME/.config for configuration $HOME/.cache for regeneratable data > All data should be in a subdir in there. So for alex4, you should use > $HOME/.local/share/alex4/ Well as somebody with an @debian.org email address, I'd assume that you'd suggest something complicated like that :) But if we don't have multiple users on the ben (on openwrt in general?), maybe I could just hardcode the path to /root/.local/share? Yeah ugly, but then patching other people's software is a nuisance. If just posix file routines would understand '~'. Ah, but liballegro understands '~' when feeding filenames through canonicalize_filename(). Maybe that's the solution here. thanks for your ideas cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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