On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:43 AM, 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 ...
It's worse than that, Jim! Inside the snap environment I can write files and directories both in /tmp and in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. What I cannot do anywhere is create a FIFO. bash-4.3$ mkfifo a bash: /usr/bin/mkfifo: Permission denied What's the problem here? To be honest I should say that my tests have been conducted in LXD containers. I don't know if the situation holds true also in real machines. -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
