[linux-audio-user] jackd and /tmp

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:48:14PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >Yes - compile it to use /dev/shm.
> 
> I'm doing that as I type.
> 
> But shouldn't that be possible to specofy as an runtime option? "jackd 
> --help" seems to suggest no, however the name of the config option 
> "--with-default-tmpdir" suggests that is merely a default dir hence that 
> some other dir can be specified later (=at runtime)...

When you build jack you are building both jackd, the server, and
libjack, the library that clients use to talk to the server. Both need
to know where the tmpdir lives because they use it to communicate with
each other. Hence, it is a compile time option. 

-Eric Rz.