This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 10:12, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote: >> > * ppp >> > * Change /usr/sbin/pppd to: >> > * Store PID in /run/, not in /var/run/ >> Why? Is the goal to make PPP-mounter /var to work?! > >I suppose someone might want to mount /var/ across a ppp link. >If we are making the other changes then we might as well make >this one too, unless there is absolutely no point in doing so >(... because it is impossible to mount /var/ across a ppp link >for some reason I am overlooking?). > >> If so, pppd has to be moved to /sbin. > >Well, /usr/ could be local but /var/ remote. > >> > The proposed new directory is for files similar to those in /var/run/ >> > that are not just variable and unshareable but also local -- i.e., they >> > must be writable independently of network connectivity. >> >> No, they must be on the root file system, like /bin and /sbin. Remember >> the root FS can be network mounted, e.g., over NFS. > >How about this then: > The proposed new directory is for files that serve similar > purposes to those in /var/run and that are not just variable > and unshareable but also available early enough to be used > by programs in /sbin and /bin.
How about: The proposed new directory is for storing program state, for those programs that run early in the bootup process such that the relevant directory in /var is not yet available. Thus we don't need to compare /run to /var/run, but make /run available for the same purposes of the entirety of /var but only in the case that a required subdirectory of /var doesn't exist. This works for the case that some programs need a /var/run and some need a /var/state and some need a /var/lib for their file; there will be so few programs actually using /run that there is no need to separate /run into further subdirectories for each of the /var subdirectories. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq
