Re: [BUG] inconsistency in $localstatedir and $runstatedir

2022-07-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 14:16 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > How can $localstatedir be $prefix/var and at the same time > $runstatedir be /var/run (notice no prefix) if it is defined as > $localstatedir/run. This I don't know about: it might be a problem in the description. > Since the FHS doesn

[BUG] inconsistency in $localstatedir and $runstatedir

2022-07-14 Thread Alejandro Colomar
See the following entries in 16.5 Variables for Installation Directories from the GNU coding standards: [[ ‘localstatedir’ The directory for installing data files which the programs modify while they run, and that pertain to one specific machine. Users should never need to modify files i