Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Bill Nottingham]

Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> >  However, I'd still need a dir to place my UNIX socket.
> 
> Algorithm is this:
> 
> 1) Attempt to grab the org.freedesktop.PulseAudio name, if successful
> goto 2, else goto 3
> 2) Create the unix socket in a new directory created with mkdtemp,
> drop to main loop answering requests
> 3) Call the method org.freedesktop.PulseAudio.GetUnixSocket on the
> existing instance, which returns a string, goto 4
> 4) Connect to the socket address returned by invocation of that method

Wait, why can't this socket be abstract? Why do you need a dir?

Bill