On 11/14/2016 02:12 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 14 Nov 2016 10:09, NeilBrown wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12 2016, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On 11 Nov 2016 14:36, NeilBrown wrote: >>>> rpcbind can save state in a file to allow restart without forgetting >>>> about running services. >>>> >>>> The default location is currently "/tmp" which is an over-used >>>> directory that isn't really suitable for system files. >>>> The modern preferences would be a subdirectory of "/run", which can >>>> be selected with a ./configure option. That subdirectory would still need >>>> to be created by something. >>> the portable path is /var/cache instead of /run. i don't think libtirpc >>> should be configuring itself to assume Linux by default. >> In principle I agree. But is /var/cache really a good choice? >> We don't want the state files to persist over a reboot, and I strongly >> suspect that /var/cache is designed to do exactly that. >> >> Are there agree standards that are broader than Linux that we can look >> to? >> FHS defines /var/run (or even /run) but I suspect it is linux-only. > /var/run should work across systems i believe. at least BSD's support it. In the Red Hat distos /var/run is a symbolic link to /run and the systemd folks have asked us to use /run instead of /var/run steved. -- 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
