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 1QMUKo-0004Jf-HJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:09:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CD161C14C; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:09:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60EFE1C10C for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id BC8BE40086; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:08:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1305677361; bh=foVWNTE/HH6EV4cF+tuF2QY1K/41XfUwB4bYp9YJMes=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=GSfoyr1D3zyNcYTS8MXzV88NGK9PmwQHoWG3/CVMpH01suHQhQDVT6q5JwuN94Jrv WGEb1FWZe8sZJNhl2eYpl+DsxCS9SMi4qHFCCZ+QTwQDXv8MeGkGe/LXStGJiCTWJQ GMEDpywuudStRd2S2Y8NJEosATAoTJKMhgn2/0cQ= Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id EE5F7260042; Wed, 18 May 2011 00:06:46 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory In-Reply-To: <20110517204025.GA29144@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk> (Markos Chandras's message of "Tue, 17 May 2011 21:40:25 +0100") References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517190703.GA3723@linux1> <20110517204025.GA29144@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk> 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 20:06:46 -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: 1:30:110518:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::GFVrPou5DIfj0fZp:000000000000000000000000000000000i9kkO X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3b70b592b3072f7d5987170acf6bef46 >>>>> "MC" == Markos Chandras writes: MC> Can you please provide some examples that require /var/lock to MC> survive a reboot? Not everything is part of the distribution. The one which first comes to mind are lock files placed to prevent certain cron-initiated jobs from running right after a reboot. Or locks preventing certain daemons from accepting connections. Such locks often are used to protect net bandwidth when it is needed for real-time use. A reboot of some random box on the lan should not break such locks. And /var/lock is the standard place to put and look for lock files. Got to run; can't contiue to write right now.... -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6