Re: "orbit-<username>" dir in /tmp

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 7 Jun 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 	So - the problem exists; and I can see 2 possible solutions.
> 
> 	a) use the users' homedir for the '.orbit-$(hostname)' directory
> 	   that would contain all the bonobo-activation lock files, and
> 	   linc socket nodes.
> 
> 	The problem with this approach is that I've heard complaints about
> GConf's problems with NFS and locking [ in the user directory ].

The real problem is that some OS's don't permit UNIX domain sockets with 
paths on NFS.

Dick put a patch in bugzilla a while ago to use the non-filesystem
namespace for ORBit - this solves the problem in question as well as the
problem of those pesky UDS files lying around. This patch (and parallell
changes to linc) really really really must go in.

-- Elliot
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