[aklug] Re: multiple distros coordinate to establish /run directory

Christopher Howard said, on 03/30/2011 08:30 PM:
> On 03/30/2011 08:16 PM, Royce Williams wrote:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
>>
>> Quoting:
>>
>> In the past weeks key people from the Debian, Suse, Ubuntu and Fedora
>> camps (and others, too) discussed the whole issue forth and back, to
>> find a solution to stop the misuse of /dev before it becomes even more
>> widespread. Various solutions have been suggested, but in the end it all
>> boiled down to the fact that /var/run does not belong beneath /var and
>> what we really want is a top-level directory /run, and that that is the
>> only really clean solution. The only reason why nobody dared to actually
>> implement such a directory was unwillingness to deal with the political
>> backlash, especially messy discussions on mailing lists like this one.
>>
>> Understanding this, we came to the conclusion that we should rather
>> implement what everybody thinks is the right technical solution, instead
>> of evading the political backlash for it. And so we implemented this.
>
> "Political backlash"? From whom?

Not sure. There's still some bad feelings about RedHat's systemd rework
of the rc system, apparently, but I don't know if that's what they're
referring to.

Royce

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Received on Wed Mar 30 20:32:58 2011