Moving the agent's socket to /var/run ?

[Damien Goutte-Gattat]

On 02/23/2016 04:24 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> What about changing the _default_ name for the sockets from, say,
> ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent to /var/run/user/<uid>/S.gpg-agent ?

May I suggest that instead of hardcoding /var/run/..., we honor the 
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable (from the XDG Base Directory Specification [1]) 
if it is set?

It seems specifically designed for that usage:

   $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR defines the base directory relative to which
   user-specific non-essential runtime files and other file objects
   (such as sockets, named pipes, ...) should be stored.


Damien

[1] 
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.8.html

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