On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 04:35:00PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "WH" == William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> WH> Once /run is in place,
> 
> WH> /var/run will be a symbolic link to /run and /var/lock will
> WH> be a symbolic link to /run/lock.
> 
> There are files which need to be in /var/lock and which should
> survive a reboot, so it is not a good idea to make /var/lock
> a symlink to /run/lock.
> 
> (And I don't just mean .keep files.)
> 
> -JimC
> -- 
> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
> 
James,

Can you please provide some examples that require /var/lock to survive a
reboot?

Regards,
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