On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 02:51:36PM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote: > To be honest, I don't really like that emergency-critical things like > agetty will need to read dozens of files from many different file > systems ... just for cosmetical reasons. IMO a 3rd party > issue-generator is the better way. All the stuff should be optional. The reason is that growing number of use-cases where specific subsystem or software want to print any information by the issue file. (I mean containers, virtualization, serial line redirections/switches, etc.) We don't want to store generated things in /etc (read-only, state-less machines, ...), so at least /run (usually tmpfs) seems like good choice. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html