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 1QMR19-0005RW-I5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:37:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D0C31C1DC; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB72E1C0C6 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 4B44C402D1; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:36:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1305664594; bh=uj47XMOLsg2BZ/qvEn3T4MefQpTHx6iLOsvcj2cpmns=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=W8Y0PKgReEu010Z7Dut1oqVsdbKM7EgaW/sDY668A9f75bDQjKKYc3bmx1AEtV3F3 gmRAQWiqrM4h5x7helyt5FO5B4Q5ZlyVGZ83HOBoe10PTNw2IIy+TtuMMTrfl3lydo jE986JYmBQb8BaGKRuv6RvnQEkTLewJXyMTnrXnw= Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 693AF260045; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:35:00 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory In-Reply-To: <20110517190703.GA3723@linux1> (William Hubbs's message of "Tue, 17 May 2011 14:07:03 -0500") References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517190703.GA3723@linux1> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2011 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 16:35:00 -0400 Message-ID: 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: text/plain X-Hashcash: 1:30:110517:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::+QfCYYmiPa8SHzPU:000000000000000000000000000000000E477M X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8af675fceca2e64203317cd35928ed92 >>>>> "WH" == William Hubbs 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 OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6