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fix: move unix socket from /tmp/ to ~/.wake/sockets/ - #12
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Sockets in world-writable /tmp/ are vulnerable to symlink attacks, path prediction, and denial of service. Using a user-owned directory under ~/.wake/ eliminates these risks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/tmp/wake-{session_id}.sockto~/.wake/sockets/wake-{session_id}.sock/tmp/is world-writable, making sockets vulnerable to symlink attacks, path prediction, and denial of service~/.wake/sockets/is user-owned and inherits the user home directory permissionscreate_dir_allTest plan
wake shelland verify socket is created under~/.wake/sockets/cmd-start,cmd-end) still communicate correctly over the new socket path