On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:49:19AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:36:48AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > wrt /var/run on tmpfs, I recall packages installing daemons that expect
> > their specific directories to be present in /var/run, and that do not
> > play nice when that directory turns out empty, but we should be able to
> > work around that by creating the directory in the init.d script before
> > we execute the daemon.
> 
> Yes.  Some examples:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332633
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334245
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334437
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342049
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333783
> 

I thought I'd mention, the way systemd handles this is with an extra
service and configuration files in /etc/tmpfiles.d [1]. I am sure OpenRC
could use the same tool[2] for that.

[1] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/tmpfiles.d.html
[2] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd-tmpfiles.html


Thanks,

Henry

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