test servers should have commandline option for socket owner

[Allison Karlitskaya]

Another bug from the "requested in person a few times but never written down" category:

Until bug 1398038 is fixed, it would be really helpful if we had command line switches that we could give to the mir server to:

 - change the ownership of the created socket

and

 - change its location

The goal here would be to be able to create a socket owned by my primary user and in its XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. From that standpoint, there could even be a single switch that takes the name (or uid) of a user and automatically uses that user's uid and runtime dir.

This would take a couple of annoying steps out of the necessary dance required for testing mir ports of toolkits.

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

@ " - change its location" - something like this?

  -f [ --file ] arg (=/run/user/1000/mir_socket)
                                        Socket filename [string:default=$XDG_RU
                                        NTIME_DIR/mir_socket or
                                        /tmp/mir_socket]

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

Awesome. Then consider this request to only be about the owner of the created socket :)

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

--arw-file was added in Mir-0.13