Application cwd in SNAP_APP_PATH vs SNAP_APP_DATA_PATH

[Kyle Fazzari]

On 03/17/2016 06:06 PM, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> 
> 
> El 04/03/16 a las 13:03, Gustavo Niemeyer escribió:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com
>> <mailto:didrocks at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     So, they will probably either use:
>>     $SNAP/<path_to_asset_or_helper>
>>
>>
>> To be fair, that argument goes both ways. They might just as well do
>> $SNAP_DATA/<path to data>.
> 
> I am very late to this thread, but it seems all apps default to SNAP_DATA?
> 
>     ubuntu at localhost:~$ hello-world.env | grep '^PWD='
>     PWD=/var/lib/snaps/hello-world.canonical/6.0
> 
> Why not SNAP_USER_DATA? As a user I cannot do anything on SNAP_DATA
> unless I sudo, if that were the case I'd prefer the current PWD to be
> preserved so at least I know where I am.

+1 for PWD for binaries, SNAP_DATA for services.

--
Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)
Software Engineer
Canonical Ltd.
kyle at canonical.com

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