[nas] 2 possible patches for the 1.9.1 version

[Jon Trulson]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) wrote:

> Frank Büttner wrote:
>> Jon Trulson schrieb:
>>>   This one I am not sure about either... It does sound like a good
>>>   idea, but:
>>> 
>>>   - Is this the generally accepted practice for linux now?  Should we
>>>     '#if defined(linux)' it?
>>> 
>>>   - looking briefly, it looks like at least Solaris 10 also does the
>>>     /var/run thing... Are there any Solaris people that think this
>>>     should be done on that platform by default too?
>>> 
>>>   - *BSD's?  What are they doing these days?
>>> 
>>>   I don't want to add this particular patch as-is (at least for 1.9.1)
>>>   since it will affect all OS's.  I think it would be ok with an 'if
>>>   defined(linux)' though.
>> 
>> Yes, it shut be an solution for all OS's.
>> I thing the file can put at /var/run on all Unix like OS's.
>> Or have someone other voice?
>> 
>
> Solaris 8 has /var/run.  Good.  But it's not user writable, and I do my own 
> local install with everything running as me, not root, so this won't work for 
> me.
>
> Of course, I'm still using nas 1.7 (or earlier?) because it just works. :-)
>
> Ray
>

   Ok, the current plan then for 1.9.1 is:

   - Make MixerInit = no the default.

   - use /var/run/ for linux only.  The issue Ray brings up will also
     be a problem for linux users that start NAS as non-root in that
     /var/run is not user-writable on Linux either.  The workaround
     would be to start nas with '-pn' (partial network).  This would
     work for Solaris too, and may be what we do in the future, but I
     do not want to incorporate a 'large impact' fix like this into
     1.9.1.

   What say ye?

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