#development
- w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:08 PMso... that's out. - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:08 PMin regards to $HOME, I am not sure we can be sure that will be a sane path either. I believe if $HOME isn’t set (in a system where you have no home dir) you get / - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:09 PMyeah, not user writable on my box - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:09 PMwell, the idea would be to check if $HOME is defined - if not, fall back to $TMPDIR - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:10 PMI’ve signed onto boxes at amazon where $HOME was set to / - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:10 PMjust the way they set them up - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:10 PMwe could test for writability as part of the validation - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:10 PMyou could also test for a sane length of the path - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:11 PMat least then you could report a decent error. - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:11 PMIf we put the file in a path based on an env variable though I think we should provide an option for the user to override our default. - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:11 PMdoesn’t solve the issue of getting the test running in CI tho - but I suppose thats another solution - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:12 PM‘check that the workdir absolute path doesnt exceed 99 characters’ then bail if not as a pre-req - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:12 PMor whatever - m
mammoth-pharmacist-54215
05/11/2016, 11:12 PMyeah - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:12 PMthen just getting that trimmed down in jenkins - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:15 PMit seems like symlinks are a valid workaround too - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:16 PM@rough-minister-58256: the 99 character requirement would immediately blow up in, eg, iron - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:16 PMtrue - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:16 PMwhich is potentially a good argument for differentiating it from the workdir - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:16 PMthe workdir doesn't have this requirement, in general - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:16 PM...but the footprint sucks, i agree. - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:17 PMseems like we could keep the current absolute path, in the event its >108 chars, create a shorter pathed absolute symlink in either $HOME or $TMPDIR linking to that - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:17 PMand use that to address the socket - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:18 PMwell, seems like for scoot et al we’re gonna soon be manually relocating workdirs etc - so moving that wholesale now is a twofer - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:18 PM“soon" - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:18 PM@rough-minister-58256: scoot won't want this file in the workdir - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:19 PMit wants it outside - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:19 PM...oh, lies. - r
rough-minister-58256
05/11/2016, 11:19 PMbuildroot vs workdir - w
witty-crayon-22786
05/11/2016, 11:19 PMyea.