Hi Jeff,

Jeff Licquia wrote on Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:30:47PM -0400:

> I've got some proposed wording for /run in.  You can see the change here:
> 
> http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/lsb/devel/fhs-spec/revision/36
> 
> It's basically the wording for /var/run moved over, with /var/run being 
> largely replaced by a few compatibility statements.  I did it this way 
> because a lot of the concerns that people had expressed seemed to be 
> handled well in the /var/run wording, such as persistence across reboots.
> 
> A few notes that might be worth some review by others:
> 
>   - I considered the BSD case for making /run optional, or moving it to 
> the Linux annex.  The problem is that it makes the text for /var/run 
> really crazy; in all likelihood, /var/run would end up having to move to 
> the annexes as well.

I don't understand how it makes the text crazy.
Why not just leave the text completely untouched,
and just add one single sentence to the Linux annex
that allows to implement /var/run as a symlink to /run?

That would not seem crazy to me at all.
It even seems simpler that your proposal.

> We know that there are a number of other objectionable sections in the
> FHS from the BSD point of view.  If and when we get a decent solution
> to those problems, we can rethink the way /run happens as part of that
> solution.

Sure; however, what you just committed would not help to improve
that situation, but rather add another item to the list of issues
to be rethought.

Yours,
  Ingo
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