On Wed, 30.03.11 15:39, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On 03/30/2011 03:20 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >>> It is outside of the FHS, > >> It's a clear violation of the FHS. > > > > Indeed, but there really is no suitable FHS-compliant location for files > > of these types, so we had no choice but to violate the standard up to > > now: nothing has changed in this respect. As I see things, the proposal > > is just to violate it in a much cleaner, co-ordinated and standardised > > way. > > How about /var/run ?? You didn't even bother to read my mail, did you? /var is mounted very late at boot, after fsck, and so on. We need something we can write during early boot, in fact even vom initrd. Hence /var/run is not suitable. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
