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

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at enigmail.net
Fri Jun 17 12:42:20 CEST 2016


On 17.06.16 11:14, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:04, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:
> 
>> Neither POSIX nor SUS requires this.  Mac OS X is a true-blue UNIX and
> 
> They also do not describe sockets or other common features of UNIX. 
> 
> It seems OS X, HFS+ is case-preserving like very old Unix systems.
> Interesting that things work anyway.

Indeed, yes.

Fortunately there is no /var/run/($id -u)/ directory on OS X, so we
don't run into an issue if we derive a hash value from the home dir ;-)

-Patrick




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