Re: emacsclient socket ownership

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:02:24 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we should have a defcustom for those who don't want
> > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to be used, even if it exists.
> 
> emacsclient can't know about defcustoms.

emacsclient could have a command-line option for that.

> > Or maybe we should check it for being writable before using it, and
> > otherwise fall back on TMPDIR, as before.
> 
> I don't think Emacs should work around user environments that are bogus
> in this way.

It's for letting users get back pre-27 behavior.  They could want it
for any number of reasons.