[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.0.2 plugin

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:52, Bud Millwood wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2003 16:21, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Oliver Joa wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > > Frank Scherthan wrote:
> > > > > Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> > > > > > Yes, they can be put somewhere else. Which directory would you
> > > > > > suggest? I think "/dev" would not be a good idea.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd like to change this in the evening. What do the other list
> > > > > > members suggest as directory and as extension for the fifos?
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, I think the best place would be the plugins-dir. As Klaus
> > > > > suggested some time ago, plugin-specific files should go there...
> > > > > So /CONFIGDIR/plugins/xine would be the PATH I aspect some
> > > > > xine-plugin related files...
> > > >
> > > > I'd say so, too.
> > > > However, config files are probably more "static", and some people
> > > > might want them to reside under /etc/..., where a fifo file might
> > > > not be welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Where are other fifo files typically put in a Linux file system?
> > > > I would assume that others must have had to make this decision
> > > > before...
> > >
> > > The simplest and IMO best solution would be to make it configurable. E.g.
> > > per makefile-parameter, or config-file entry. So everyone can put it
> > > where he/she wants.
> 
> Seems some apps use /tmp - if the fifo doesn't exist, they create it on 
> startup. If tmp is too volatile for your taste, maybe /var/yourapp.

I think /tmp is the place to be.

> As for extension, I vote for ".fifo".

This is linux not dos.  No extension is needed.

IMHO an extension only makes sense when you have many files with a
particular type of data in them.  Like all .c files or .h files or even
all .doc files.  In unix the extension is an aide to knowing what the
file is.

When these files are very specific to a particular problem, and there
will only ever be a few of these fifos on a particular machine then why
have an extension at all?  Call  it vdr-xine-fifo or some such.


> - Bud
> "The threat of madness is the price of reason" - Susanne Langer
> 
> 



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