On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:36:48AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> wrt /var/run on tmpfs, I recall packages installing daemons that expect
> their specific directories to be present in /var/run, and that do not
> play nice when that directory turns out empty, but we should be able to
> work around that by creating the directory in the init.d script before
> we execute the daemon.

Yes.  Some examples:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332633
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334245
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334437
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342049
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333783

Basically, if we are going to to do the move to /run, we should have a
policy of "/var/run and /var/lock can and will be on tmpfs and init
scripts should handle this correctly" or something similar.

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Eray Aslan
Developer, Gentoo Linux       eras <at> gentoo.org