What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:54:30PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> The actual code changes we needed to implement this scheme were trivial
>> (basically, just bind mount /var/run and /var/lock instead of mounting two
>> new tmpfs' to them.), which is why we opted to do this so late in the F15
>> cycle. However, the political implications are much bigger I guess, so
>> let's see what a fantastic flamewar we can start with this on
>> fedora-devel now. Flame away!
>
> No flames from me. This is a sensible, thought-through change with
> cross-distro buy-in and no major downsides.

I could not disagree more.

> It is outside of the FHS,
It's a clear violation of the FHS.