Re: server stuff

[Dave Love]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs/address@hidden> writes:

> I think the stickiness is a "nonissue" since TMPDIR should either
> be sticky or writable only by the user (otherwise, you get many more
> holes anyway).

Yes, but.

> I don't know if the "local"ness is an issue.

Most bets seem to be off under Nightmare File System.

> If we don't obey TMP or TMPDIR, we should still allow the
> user some way to specify a different socket location so she
> can have several active emacs servers at the same time.

Frobbing TMPDIR doesn't seem the right way to do that.  What's wrong
with a server number à la X's :1 if you want to support several
connexions?

> Indeed, I had no idea that the access rights of sockets might be ignored
> on some (non-negligible) systems.

Nor did I...