As you probably have noticed in bug #386945, User Mode Linux fail to run when /dev/shm/ is mounted noexec. We should ask them to fix it, but at the moment we have no alternative tmpfs file system for it to use. ifupdown is also storing stuff in /dev/shm/, but get away with it as it is only creating normal files. As I see it, we have two options:
- Drop the noexec flag from /dev/shm/ until etch is released, and come up with a solution post-etch. - Make some other tmpfs instead of /dev/shm/ available in time for etch. This was discussed on debian-devel@ a while back, and no conclusion was reached. /run/ and /lib/run was proposed. My favorite is /lib/run/, to hide it away from /. I suspect we will need to provide the second option sooner or later, and would prefer it to be available in etch. I plan to switch to tmpfs for /var/run/ and /var/lock/ after etch, and I guess /var/run/ could be bind-mounted from /lib/run/ when /var/ is mounted, to avoid having too many tmpfs file systems around. Or perhaps making /var/run/ and /var/lock/ subdirectories in the /lib/run/ directory? Any comments or other suggestions? Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
