Lennart Poettering wrote: >> I know this is evil, but what would happen if my home dir was on e.g. >> fat32 (yuk) which doesn't support symlinks? Pulse wouldn't run... (it >> may bail out earlier due to permission setting problems anyway). But >> with a file containing a reference to a socket it would work. > > I am pretty sure that PA wouldn't be the first thing to fail on > FAT32... > > I'll wait for the bug reports before I even think of making PA FAT32-safe. There have been a couple already in the past that I remember... User's trying to run pulse on embedded systems with FAT32 flash drives etc. I remember helping a user on a trac ticket or this list to debug things relating to permissions problems as a result... Can't find the reference now but it certainly has happened in the past. >> I don't want to even begin to think about how any of the socket and >> symlink stuff maps to running PA on win32 :p > > The Win32 port only uses TCP sockets. Phew! ;) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
