> Hi Jesse, > > Which are the motivations for the named pipe to live on /run and not > in /dev?. > > > Thanks in advance, > Mat?as >
That decision was made a few years before I came onto the project, so I'm not sure of all of the details. However, there were two major factors involved: 1. Debian patched init to use /run instead of /dev to conform with their file system guidelines. 2. Some other systems, like FreeBSD, do not allow utilities to create files or pipes in /dev. Basically, creating stuff in /dev at run time is not considered "proper" by most modern OSes. - Jesse
