From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMR5N-0005dv-5p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:41:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A9571C241; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CBA1C1D4 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so3996714wwi.4 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 13:40:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=c+ThLyCTO46uUu9Wi/uiCJlgpRlPAss63Gn7vMPJp1Y=; b=sDXAYzjuxMY5e3nuTK/6p3Z0SjexQ0VXowb7WEFebApDk+bvhCNkloG71y4SOnns5D sV6kr/gWKu3zBNoDDXJL/rprjrDTZ3PNTZI1ZISMy6hBgC/LRw+j931JDJnOT/pGSIMd /hs9oOCifW4i5T80svs1ipSn2WEJBmIpTkc/Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=JIpnJcQ0EhFzc3sKoWZ6iKrgTOFyHax9JbfBVxrOPzePRAb0nTDcdkSm7HDhaT3f5e CdYJldRhWF/SAcC23orgnndW3OyGJcmyCgaYx1OYeMnCoM0NSaOMKt7U97jX2bfZ5Op6 lLem4vQTiFKLDTyhSTPP/16FRbCBTd1jbS7n8= Received: by 10.227.199.19 with SMTP id eq19mr1075293wbb.75.1305664830666; Tue, 17 May 2011 13:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk (wh147a.halls.manchester.ac.uk [130.88.185.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z13sm568041wbd.12.2011.05.17.13.40.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 17 May 2011 13:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 21:40:25 +0100 From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Message-ID: <20110517204025.GA29144@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk> References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517190703.GA3723@linux1> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 880fce2f8d9b4e2a15af9b7169f96c2e --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 04:35:00PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "WH" =3D=3D William Hubbs writes: >=20 > WH> Once /run is in place, >=20 > WH> /var/run will be a symbolic link to /run and /var/lock will > WH> be a symbolic link to /run/lock. >=20 > 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. >=20 > (And I don't just mean .keep files.) >=20 > -JimC > --=20 > James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 >=20 James, Can you please provide some examples that require /var/lock to survive a reboot? Regards, --=20 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJN0t04AAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCSLsP/Rs3vKd93KdRwoQzAhM6BJfy cc8xs6ar3gB4wpXcMQCqx+vXmO96aYR1nkhOauCxLagPv2j8kYI01YLswYPXqN/y X9zRnjxUEwDq3fYdwGW6kpiTmKRay/cZ+IRVGMRSNAoE7rfsWeR/LsYhbn3a0ve7 u97exQdyGbFu+0qwd9uvj2wkhfZTWVSReKmE1Z74ztAdyNc3uHp+cQ4qO3CPr9lO TiWBa09iaIPjKVUIfjuzkxLNfascA2joYhd2S4SuYHgy8L53StBbJFtlyE5ZDDSC 7T3bY1qN2pHDY1VKbam7Zu7EV/F/hPyhicwGa1sfS/Z89uQuhJgdo8Jffe/5mG2k kYwArIoJ/+Rr9kHXsy9oQejljvfYg+3WiMu2HPK8vFy5snUwJBuAijxXY6xyee8h oK3AFxwUE5dMwACLnSW6vw6xaQtIZwlAoAiPBboluMV8EPPadHVGe6KZqNKzIJr+ Q/L2ZCB2JrUp44GD4o+qyGHfjEoNHFlTazMlTJFgZkzLl8ar35rnj0pP/7Z+fqs2 3dIsi+kn05az40J4mgT9UBIYSpgHCuEH0elNErG+4mpUbefFgI4KkjX0C+KRaYkv QoiTECD5hiEo6QxeZVMyXF5tPlI7F2br2slnO3nt50CvPxQelNO8KWS8fpXcKBuT oe62kdc03a6r7vQRO3Ks =l/8G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--