On Fri, 24.12.10 16:17, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
On 12/23/2010 01:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 20.12.10 13:07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
I raise this issue because "The API for /dev/shm is shm_open()" statement above means to me that in the future there will be no file api access to a ram mounted filesystem in Fedora (I understand that this is my own conclusion, but I can't see any other given the wording of the statement above). Before someone implements that idea, please consider the needs of a filesystem in ram for such uses as those mentioned in this thread (and that is supported by the Fedora distribution by default). Just in case...
This too appears to be a good usecase for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR btw.
If I understand correctly this would only be available for logged in users only. If /var/run is going to be a tmpfs in fc15+ (if I understand correctly another message you posted in this thread) then that would appear to be a better option to my eyes (the main Jack developers might have other opinions/ideas, I'll try to keep them posted).
For the precise semantics of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR please refer to the XDG basedir spec:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Most distributions and many programs implement this spec in one way or another, however the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR part is a relatively new addition, and F15 is probably the first bigger distro which implements it.
Lennart