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| From: | Eray Aslan <eras@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory | ||
| Date: | Wed, 18 May 2011 05:50:04 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20110518054919.GB2928@zptr-nb18.caf.local | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by Jeroen Roovers |
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| 1 | On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:36:48AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
| 2 | > wrt /var/run on tmpfs, I recall packages installing daemons that expect |
| 3 | > their specific directories to be present in /var/run, and that do not |
| 4 | > play nice when that directory turns out empty, but we should be able to |
| 5 | > work around that by creating the directory in the init.d script before |
| 6 | > we execute the daemon. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Yes. Some examples: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332633 |
| 11 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334245 |
| 12 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334437 |
| 13 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342049 |
| 14 | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333783 |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Basically, if we are going to to do the move to /run, we should have a |
| 17 | policy of "/var/run and /var/lock can and will be on tmpfs and init |
| 18 | scripts should handle this correctly" or something similar. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | -- |
| 21 | Eray Aslan |
| 22 | Developer, Gentoo Linux eras <at> gentoo.org |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory | Henry Gebhardt <hsggebhardt@××××××××××.com> |