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On Sat, 26 May 2012 18:17:38 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It |
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> appears that /run is sort of a temp thing while booting and just sort |
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> of sticks around after getting booted, since it is there anyway. Why |
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> not use it? |
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No, that is incorrect. |
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/run is a deliberate design decision (and a damn good one that should |
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always have been there IMHO) and it sticks around because it is |
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supposed to. It's not an after-effect that just happens to be useful, |
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it's the entire objective. |
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Think of it in the same way you think of /dev, /proc and /sys: |
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There are there, there are guaranteed to be there with certain |
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behaviours, and you can't change that (neither should you want to). |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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