On Di, 14.05.19 08:35, Ulrich Windl ([email protected]) wrote:
> >>> Reindl Harald <[email protected]> schrieb am 13.05.2019 um 08:25 in > Nachricht <[email protected]>: > > > > > Am 13.05.19 um 08:20 schrieb Ulrich Windl: > >>> Note that "/var/run" is a legacy alias for "/run". It's highly > >>> recommended not to use the former anymore. > >> > >> It it because you don't like sub-directories, or is it to save four bytes? > >> ;-) > > > > > > stop it - if you would have read IT news (golem/heise) the last 7 years > > or so you would know about /run and why it is a top-directory > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard > > > > /run > > > > Run-time variable data: Information about the running system since last > > boot, e.g., currently logged-in users and running daemons. Files under > > this directory must be either removed or truncated at the beginning of > > the boot process; but this is not necessary on systems that provide this > > directory as a temporary filesystem (tmpfs). > > I knew that. It doesn't answer _why_ /var/run is obsolete. That decision was made 8 years ago. See here for the longer explanation: https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ And since propagated into most distributions, including many which don't even like systemd. The FHS also says so now, as I learnt recently. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
