/run is guaranteed to be available and writeable at any time, whereas /var might be on a separate partition and hence not available during early boot. By moving the socket from /var to /run we are able to use rpcbind earlier, which would in particular make a difference in case /var is on an nfs mount, something I am currently seeing bug reports about. This change should not make a difference to software that currently works as intended, as /var/run should be a symlink or bindmounted to /run, so anyone relying on the socket being in /var/run will still find it there. The /run directory is supported by all the major distributions (at least Debian, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu and Arch from what I can gather). See http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/146976 for some more details. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> --- tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.h | 2 +- tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.x | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.h b/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.h index 7ae48b8..63b4a2c 100644 --- a/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.h +++ b/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.h @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ extern bool_t xdr_netbuf(XDR *, struct netbuf *); #define RPCBVERS_3 RPCBVERS #define RPCBVERS_4 RPCBVERS4 -#define _PATH_RPCBINDSOCK "/var/run/rpcbind.sock" +#define _PATH_RPCBINDSOCK "/run/rpcbind.sock" #else /* ndef _KERNEL */ #ifdef __cplusplus diff --git a/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.x b/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.x index b21ac3d..ebe1e60 100644 --- a/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.x +++ b/tirpc/rpc/rpcb_prot.x @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ program RPCBPROG { %#define RPCBVERS_3 RPCBVERS %#define RPCBVERS_4 RPCBVERS4 % -%#define _PATH_RPCBINDSOCK "/var/run/rpcbind.sock" +%#define _PATH_RPCBINDSOCK "/run/rpcbind.sock" % %#else /* ndef _KERNEL */ %#ifdef __cplusplus -- 1.7.8 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
