15 May
2013
15 May
'13
3:44 p.m.
during the research around kdesktop_lock I found that
kdesktoplockcontrol
(formerly pipe, now socket) can never work. Pipe / socket is
created in
folder /tmp/tdesocket-global, but into this folder can enter and
write
only 'root'. The folder is created with permissions 0644, which is
a bit
unusual for the folders.
I also noticed (when I was allowed to write to the folder
tdesocket-global
also for others) that kdesktoplockcontrol and
kdesktoplockcontrol_out are
created but never removed.
Please can anyone confirm my findings?
How kdesktoplockcontrol was intended?
Currently obviously can never work.
I'm using pre R14 from GIT. I start X from the command line with
startx and not in graphical mode with TDM. Therefore during a
normal user session, /tmp/tdesocket-global does not exist because I
am not using TDM.
When I lock the screen I see the following created:
$TMP/tde-$USER/kdesktop_lock_lockfile
/tmp/tdesocket-global
I do not see any files named kdesktoplockcontrol or
kdesktoplockcontrol_out.
There are no files in /tmp/tdesocket-global.
/tmp/tdesocket-global is created with 0644 $USER:$USER permissions
yet through konqueror and the command line I cannot access the
directory.
From my perspective, the /tmp/tdesocket-global directory should
never be created when a user locks the screen, which is a user-
based action, not global. Second, seems to me whenever
/tmp/tdesocket-global is created the ownership should always be
root:root, not $USER:$USER. Third, permissions should be 0755, not
0644.
I remember raising the topic of housekeeping a long time ago. When
I experiment with TDM to help with nominal testing, I notice that
/tmp/tdesocket-global remains across a reboot, as does files in
that directory.
Darrell