On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:10:07PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > * Other proposed solutions are technically inferior, mostly > because they are more complex.
The other aspect is that /var's the place for stuff that varies during normal use; introducing some other place for the same thing is redundant and thus more complex. > The answer, I take it, is that the handful of programs, H, that > would use R can then use /var/run instead. /var/run has always been the right place in the namespace; it's just not been usable for technical reasons. If we fix the technical reasons, all is good. > The burden on H's > maintainers of knowing that their programs face special storage > problems is shifted onto the sysvinit maintainers and admins who > have to ensure that writable space is shoved under /var/run by > the time any of the H tries to write there. Yup. Just as the burden of ensuring /usr is available is placed on sysvinit maintainers and admins. Cheers, aj
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