Florian Lohoff <f...@rfc822.org> writes: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:40:57PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> one of the changes in 3.8.1 was, that support for tmpfs on /var/run >> (and /var/tmp) became mandatory [9.3.2]. Lintian is now also >> complaining very loudly (error) if your package ships a directory in >> /var/run or /var/tmp and suggests to create them in the init script. >> >> While I can see the benefits of having /var/tmp on a tmpfs to a certain >> degree, I don't really see them for /var/run, instead they make things >> more complicated, slower and error prone (for imho no real gain) > > Interesting - The unix way IMHO was that /tmp looses content on reboot > while /var/tmp did not. This had been the case for commercial Unices for > at least some decades. I'm pretty sure Michael meant /var/lock when he said /var/tmp above. Policy 3.8.1 doesn't change anything about /var/tmp. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
