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by fweimer 1178 days ago
My one gripe is that many systems do not provide a writable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in all cases because the requirements in the specification are impossible to meet at the same time (the specification does not acknowledge the existence of “su --login”). This means that applications still need fallback code, which historically has been buggy (e.g., using shared /tmp without safeguards).