[sugar] Activity write space

Michael Stone mstone at sccs.swarthmore.edu
Wed Aug 8 10:56:18 EDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:41:17AM -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> I think this /data business is nonsense. The activity should be given  
> a path at startup, and it should only ever attempt to work with known  
> directories under that path (such as 'conf', 'tmp', 'data'). 

Fine. We'll rewrite P_SANDBOX to make it clear that this is what you
meant. 

Would the environment variable OLPC_SANDBOX be an appropriate means of
conveying the desired sandbox root to the launching activity? 

(or SUGAR_SANDBOX, or ACTIVITY_ROOT, or ...)? A different mechanism
entirely?

Michael



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