Re: gnuclient screwage?

Ben> i think the proper behavior is to always use /tmp, provided Ben> it exists and is world-writable; only fall back on Ben> environment variables otherwise. the reason for this is Ben> precisely to avoid problems like this -- we want a Ben> "well-defined location". How about an app-specific variable like GNUSERV_SOCKETDIR? This would have higher precedence than /tmp. Then fail if neither is writable. Ben> but it may be more pragmatic to just change the docs. This is the best way for 21.1 and 21.4. I'll write it up and submit a patch (PROBLEMS, man, info, comment in source, anything else?) shortly. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."