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Re: Patch for esound-0.2.19
From: James Ralston <qralston+ml.bugtraq () ANDREW CMU EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:32:09 -0400
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
FreeBSD fixed this (it was the subject of advisory 00:45) by moving the ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR into the user's home directory
In general, it's not a good idea to assume that you can create special files in the user's home directory. For example, the AFS distributed filesystem does not implement any special files (sockets, named pipes, or block or character special devices). So moving ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR into the user's home directory, while it might seem like the most straightforward solution, would simply break esd on systems where a user's home directory is mounted in AFS. I haven't inspected esd closely, but I'd guess that this is one of the reasons why the authors simply didn't locate ESD_UNIX_SOCKET_DIR in the user's home directory in the first place. -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Current thread:
- Patch for esound-0.2.19 Alon Oz (Sep 12)
- Re: Patch for esound-0.2.19 Kris Kennaway (Sep 25)
- Re: Patch for esound-0.2.19 James Ralston (Sep 25)
- Re: Patch for esound-0.2.19 Kris Kennaway (Sep 25)