On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17.12.13 20:23, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog ([email protected]) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Now that dbus sockets are by default expected to be in /run by systemd; >> /var/run by other dbus libraries, we have to use env variables to tell one >> of them the correct socket path. >> >> Both systemd and glib (gio) are hardcoding the default dbus socket path and >> having an override with environment variable. Since the default values for >> both libraries are different, we have to specify either systemd's >> applications or glibs applications the correct dbus socket. >> >> Wouldn't it be the best to make default dbus socket path a ./configure >> option? Or maybe ask dbus with pkgconf first and fall back to a default >> value? > > /var/run is the legacy alias for /run. In systemd we won't use /var/run
Hi. I am suggesting to make it a configure option not to make it /var/run. And same suggestion is valid for glib. Dbus (http://dbus.freedesktop.org) has a configure option to change the socket path for those who want to put their socket to an /alternate_path. Umut > ever, and we suggest that distros should just symlink /var/run to /run, > and most do. Which means that the two paths are pretty much equivalent... > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering, Red Hat > _______________________________________________ > systemd-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
