Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 05/18/2011 05:45 PM, Henry Gebhardt wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:49:19AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> I thought I'd mention, the way systemd handles this is with an extra
> service and configuration files in /etc/tmpfiles.d [1]. I am sure OpenRC
> could use the same tool[2] for that.
> 
> [1] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html
> [2] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd-tmpfiles.html

Not all packages using /var/run own a init script, nor need one.  Take
sys-fs/udisks[1] for example.  Then, we need something to create these
dirs in OpenRC (or fix the package, but that might take some time...)

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/333893