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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Location of the kdeinit-<user> file
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-03-06 12:50:10
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On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Hmm, I rather polute /tmp than $HOME - like ksirc does ;(
> >
> > Well, we can't pollute /tmp with "well-known" sockets. E.g.
> > kdeinit-$hostname is a well known socket. If another user creates
> > this file in /tmp you can't use it any more.
> > (kdeinit-$uid-$hostname wouldn't solve this, since another user
> > could still make such a file to be annoying)
> >
> > Better have a dedicated directory for the polution.
>
> Well, that's the reason why kio creates the socket name randomly and
> not after a schema :)

Yes, I know. But that only works if you have a way to communicate the 
name to the other party. With kdeinit this is not the case. That's what 
I mean with a "well-known socket". 

Cheers,
Waldo

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