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andreareina on Nov 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beej's Guide to Interprocess Communication

What's the conventional location for unix domain sockets if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset? /tmp?

teddyh on Nov 27, 2023 [–]

That’s where the X11 server puts its socket, but I think the modern convention is /run, though.

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