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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:35:12 +0530 |
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> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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>> As I understand it, that's precisely what William's plan is. |
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>> $ ls -ld /var/{lock/run} |
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>> /var/lock -> /run/lock |
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>> /var/run -> /run/ |
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>> This should work transparently for all existing applications. |
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>> The only way this would fail is if they do an incorrect stat() on |
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>> /var/run and error out if it's a symbolic link. OTOH, it's precisely |
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>> to iron out such kinks that we have ~arch. |
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> What if a daemon tries to do braindead compat attempt through creating |
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> a pidfile in both directories? |
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I think the answer is obvious — we patch it to use /run/lock ... |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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