Where to save stuff (in snap-agnostic way)

[XiaoGuo Liu]

Hi Oli,

Does it mean all of the snaps have the same /tmp or each snap has its own
/tmp? I am a little bit confused about this.

Thanks & best regards,
XiaoGuo



On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 03.02.2017, 21:04 +0100 schrieb Luca Dionisi:
> > What is the best place to write (and read) a temporary FIFO file from
> > a confined snap application?
> > This is for simple IPC between 2 processes of the same snap.
> > Before attempting to snap the application I was using a fixed
> > filename
> > in /tmp. Admittedly poor solution.
> > The solution should be usable also with another packaging system.
> >
> well ... in case of snaps /tmp is a private directory that only your
> snap can access so it is actually a good place for such stuff ...
>
> ... that said ... if you want to use it in other packaging systems
> where this is not the case it might indeed not be the best choice and
> using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR might be the better way, as others pointed out.
>
> ciao
>         oli
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