From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:00:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTim2Tf5-xj8TmXe5jmWMb55brLm_bw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110523091322.6eddfae2@pomiocik.lan>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:35:12 +0530
> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, that's precisely what William's plan is.
>>
>> $ ls -ld /var/{lock/run}
>> /var/lock -> /run/lock
>> /var/run -> /run/
>>
>> This should work transparently for all existing applications.
>>
>> The only way this would fail is if they do an incorrect stat() on
>> /var/run and error out if it's a symbolic link. OTOH, it's precisely
>> to iron out such kinks that we have ~arch.
>
> What if a daemon tries to do braindead compat attempt through creating
> a pidfile in both directories?
>
I think the answer is obvious — we patch it to use /run/lock ...
--
~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 16:57 [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory William Hubbs
2011-05-17 18:11 ` Peter Volkov
2011-05-17 18:28 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 18:43 ` Ângelo Arrifano
2011-05-17 18:50 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 19:11 ` Peter Volkov
2011-05-17 19:20 ` Ângelo Arrifano
2011-05-17 19:07 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-17 20:35 ` James Cloos
2011-05-17 20:40 ` Markos Chandras
2011-05-18 0:06 ` James Cloos
2011-05-18 0:43 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-17 19:20 ` Panagiotis Christopoulos
2011-05-17 19:46 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-18 1:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-05-18 1:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2011-05-18 5:49 ` Eray Aslan
2011-05-18 14:45 ` Henry Gebhardt
2011-05-18 14:51 ` Samuli Suominen
2011-05-18 15:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2011-05-17 19:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 20:00 ` Olivier Crête
2011-05-17 20:07 ` Michał Górny
2011-05-17 20:11 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-05-17 20:23 ` Rich Freeman
2011-05-17 20:20 ` Panagiotis Christopoulos
2011-05-17 20:28 ` Michał Górny
2011-05-17 20:54 ` Olivier Crête
2011-05-17 21:00 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 22:26 ` Drake Wyrm
2011-05-17 22:36 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2011-05-17 22:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-18 0:06 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-17 22:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-05-18 0:12 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-23 6:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-05-23 7:05 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-23 7:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-05-23 7:13 ` Michał Górny
2011-05-23 8:30 ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2011-05-20 8:58 ` Luca Barbato
2011-05-20 16:54 ` Mike Pagano
2011-05-22 19:13 ` Luca Barbato
2011-05-22 21:12 ` Ondřej Súkup
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