Hi,

SimpleIPC under Linux always creates the pipe file under /tmp/.

packages/fcl-process/src/unix/simpleipc.inc

constructor TPipeClientComm.Create(AOWner: TSimpleIPCClient);
Var
  D : String;
begin
  inherited Create(AOWner);
  FFileName:=Owner.ServerID;
  If (Owner.ServerInstance'') then
    FFileName:=FFileName+'-'+Owner.ServerInstance;
  D:='/tmp/'; // Change to something better later
  FFileName:=D+FFileName;
end;

Can this be made optional, for example to this:

constructor TPipeClientComm.Create(AOWner: TSimpleIPCClient);
begin
  inherited Create(AOWner);
  FFileName:=Owner.ServerID;
  If (Owner.ServerInstance'') then
    FFileName:=FFileName+'-'+Owner.ServerInstance;
  if FFileName[1]'/' then
    FFileName:='/tmp/'+FFileName;
end;

Should I create a mantis issue?

Mattias

Yes.
I planned in fact 2 modes: global, and local. Local was meant to be user-specific.

Since then I think using d-bus is the better approach. I have components that enable communication through d-bus. You can't find a linux box without it anyway (don't know about BSDs or Darwin)

Michael.

[...] > Should I create a mantis issue? Yes.

Done:

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27572

Mattias