On Fri, 14.03.08 12:27, Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:51 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > The problem here is that /var/run is usually cleaned up during bootup, > > so it's usually fine to just do a kill(pid, 0) to detect whether a > > daemon is already running. However, PA runs as user daemon and thus > > cannot write to /var/run. I thus chose /tmp/ copying X and esd a > > bit. Which is admittedly a bad idea, and also introduces a (minor) > > security issue. > > The best thing to do is to use the DBus session bus. Have pulseaudio > grab a bus name such as org.pulseaudio.SessionDaemon. Uh? Grab a name for nothing? Also, this would prohibit multiple instances of PA for different users. > Pid files and using /tmp is inherently racy and broken. Sure, I acknowledge that. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
