[desktop-discuss] why is Xsun removing /tmp/.ICE-unix

[Willi Burmeister]

Hi,

KDE is using some sockets created in /tmp/.ICE-unix. This directory is created
during KDE startup, but only writeable by the user. On multi user systems this
is a bad idea and the common workaround for this was to create /tmp/.ICE-unix
with correct permissions during system startup.

This simple workaround does not work with Solaris 10, as Xsun removes the 
directory if it's empty. Adding a 'touch' to keep it nonempty is easy, but
the question is. Why is Xsun removing /tmp/.ICE-unix at all? Xsun on Solaris 9
and Xorg ignores the directory, why this change in behaviour in Solaris 10?

Thanks for every information.

Willi