I agree with Poettering in exactly one point: /dev/.xxx is *bad*. I'm not saying /run is a clean solution, but /dev/.xxx is *wrong*. It might be OK for udev, because udev is responsible for populating /dev, but it's highly mysterious to me why they started cramming the other stuff in there, like for instance systemd, it seems.
I agree with the others: Early boot should not require the need to create PID files. The first thing that's usually done by some initscript is mounting important filesystems. It seems highly dubious that Fedora seems to do it different. I've seen people commenting that this will require an update to FHS. If it's that easy to get new and apparently distro-specific entries into FHS, I will propose a /barf that just sits there for no particular purpose. As for the other comments on the issue, Poettering seems to have a "fanbase" which blindly approves of everything he does. To quote a person called "nhippi"[1], "That's one welcome move! I for one welcome our new /run introducing overlords!". In any case, I don't understand why this is discussed on this mailing list. This has absolutely nothing to do with any suckless software. Please take your criticism to other mailing lists, where people are in a position to change things should valid arguments come up. Posting here won't change anything (the reason for me to reply on this: I don't want to change anything. I'm just a grumpy old slackware 1.0 user[2] who is unable to completely understand how brilliant systemd actually is, so any of my criticism is void anyway). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/436020/ [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken?highlight=%28slackware%29
