On Apr 8, 2009, at 2:38 AM, Neil Brown wrote:
On Tuesday April 7, dledford@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:I disagree. At least in our case, the reason that /var/run is a real directory is not to preserve ownerships (although it does do that as well), but to preserve security context for SELinux.Ahhh... well SELinux and I have never seen eye-to-eye either :-)
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I have to say that putting the map file in /dev feels very icky to me. It isn't a device, and so doesn't belong in /dev. If we go around putting things somewhere convenient rather than where they belong, we quickly end up with a mess.If that's the case, then all of udev's library data in /dev/.udevdoesn't belong there either. And as much as this may not be a device,it is in fact device specific in that it maps one device to another. It really is right along the lines of the data udev stores in .udev, so I don't see the ickyness.You don't think that /dev/.udev is icky?
The whole concept of device files was a hack to enable the "everything is a file" semantic. There are so many things I find icky about device files/enumeration in general that I find it very difficult to get uppity about what belongs in /dev...the whole thing is a steaming pile of...
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