Launchpad has imported 2 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62092.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-03-10T09:10:08+00:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Currently weston aborts if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset. However the XDG base dir spec says: "If $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set applications should fall back to a replacement directory with similar capabilities and print a warning message."[1] This is specially problematic because of weston-launch resetting the environment (bug 61877). [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec- latest.html Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/weston/+bug/1058211/comments/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-03-11T18:45:33+00:00 Darxus wrote: Explanation for current behavior by pq here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland- devel/2013-March/007902.html Contents: > But still, Emilio, the reason we on purpose fail on missing > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is that there is no suitable "replacement directory > with similar capabilities" to be found in general. > > For example, falling back to anything under $HOME will fail for > nfs-mounted home, I believe. > > The requirements for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are actually quite difficult > to fill without specific distribution support. Especially the following: > > "The directory MUST be on a local file system and not shared with > any other system. The directory MUST by fully-featured by the > standards of the operating system. More specifically, on Unix-like > operating systems AF_UNIX sockets, symbolic links, hard links, > proper permissions, file locking, sparse files, memory mapping, > file change notifications, a reliable hard link count must be > supported, and no restrictions on the file name character set > should be imposed." > > - http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > Therefore we want the user to explicitly shoot himself in the > foot if they have to. We actually used to have a fallback for > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR being unset, and it only caused confusion. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/weston/+bug/1058211/comments/9 ** Changed in: weston Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: weston Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058211 Title: weston does not fallback gracefully if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/weston/+bug/1058211/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
