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
>
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