[Kde-pim] Question on Akonadi data connection

[Tobias Koenig]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:01:23PM +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
Hi Kevin,

> > > 2) The socket address should rather be an abtract unix socket, e.g. like
> > > D-Bus Currently, if the akonadiserver crashed, it leaves the socket
> > > around and cannot listen on it anymore
> >
> > We just have to unlink the unix socket file on a restart of akonadi.
> > That's a know issue with unix domain sockets.
> 
> The current hardcoded socket path is a problem (besides being hardcoded) if 
> the file system hosting $HOME is not capable of having sockets.
> 
> In a KDE application we would use KStandardDirs to locate a suitable socket 
> directory, abstract Unix sockets avoid this problem alltogether.
Ahh, you mean KLocalSocket::AbstractUnixSocket with abstract unix
sockets :) Well, using them makes sense indeed :)

> I am not sure how far the D-Bus Windows people have come sofar since they have 
> the same issue.
> I though that maybe using the same address format as D-Bus might give us 
> better flexibility in the long term. 
Yepp

Ciao,
Tobias
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