-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Il 13/09/2013 05:01, Eric Blake ha scritto: > On 09/11/2013 04:12 PM, Karl Berry wrote: >> rms wants --varrundir instead of --rundir for the option name. I >> expect there will be objections to that name because of wanting >> to use /run. Other ideas? >> > > While writing patches to use the new variable (whatever it gets > named), I noticed that the original proposal: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ > > also mentions that distros want to use /lock instead of /var/lock > for storing lock files, which have yet another class of semantics. > Should we also be adding support for a variable defaulting to > $(localstatedir)/lock but allowing the use of /lock?
A few years after that article, I have /run/lock on my machine and a symlink from /var/lock to it, so I think $(runstatedir)/lock is a better choice. Perhaps we can document it together with runstatedir. Paolo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSMuCoAAoJEBvWZb6bTYbyvaQP/jByAm1AZ27LDSZpfBBVi97g JdbMfe4pSfu8/Kj2HX2/J9q6sWExtekEPBq/9JCeAnQAtUvFFWE41Om9rYFlVPxA 7Ch+0Vk8IAfLy3PfbzH64y6w+FL/gO9empyxCjCm4LPGc5TYfCJA+88+Z6y+Dhbx wvOZMU9j/KR5bI4sfvEjBGjg531A6j9MhKg3MMNwu4GrgPoIgL9iGGlmNLwcOf9+ 50izOPpVbttLx3I2e0lgCSbsSpHKAT293yy4nJnkyhZWVPa58hXQZpd3vZh1fhqx aKAJiTpI5l7sUZDmp8eVZwgtg7Eu8U1mKNfbrwYEQ0nTD8peiTqruDO/D6jr7jZd EzqT+he3dZEl+Vl4+KB+VAuGdF/A8W8//+0w3Bf52/NDGzBj8fO4sV6eHuxHvgnF 3gyfs/UvE0Pa2UUSrVzs/B9RSk12ygTUBd80qBVGEHK12RSbO66SqfLVNWmDZjNc IpCB2Wbma5x3aGsqUG/eqy8+mh0Z9BFvaJasMVlz8EwQfrLeIGWCzUKKdqpO0T+8 MCWYexkNKGFr9kh+IAdKD0fK6lzShecPY6+CusdYSZdw61HsNjPRLqcASCazwL0q NYqOhjwrte7kkS09jGWu6/FNkKgLso+uR3hCiWUU9mxev261LUIG2h/ZAf3d006Y QiBzhYvmjHiVTM9lFYEN =XQZQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
