On 2014-09-17 02:38, Glenn Golden wrote: > David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> [2014-09-16 08:02:50 +0200]: >>> >>> In 5b-c, is it possible that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR was intended? >> >> Yes, I meant XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Sorry for the typo. >> > > No problem, just wanted to be sure, thanks for clarifying. > > But just to prove that no good deed goes unpunished, :) I'll pester you with > yet another question: > > Can you describe what pieces of information the pa_context_connect() API > function takes into account in determining (or guessing at) the server? > > The motivation for this question is that I'm wondering if this function is > the means by which a commandline option like "--server=XXXX" is handled > (e.g., by the caller providing "XXXX" to the function as a potential > candidate server, to be decided upon in addition to other pieces of info...) ? If you give a "--server" argument to pactl, pactl passes that argument unchanged when it calls pa_context_connect(), hence the command line argument falls under point 1) in my list, for pactl. Other applications might do things differently, e g by having a dialog box where you can configure the server name, and some are probably always passing NULL out of simplicity or laziness. Does that answer your question? -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
