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

[John Reiser]

On 03/30/2011 10:24 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It's perfectly possible, and has been done lots
> of times, to simply go ahead and commit significant changes that _could_
> have been 'features', not submit them as features, and happily bypass
> the entire 'feature' process with all its bureaucracy. /run would
> certainly not be close to being the first time this has happened.

Please give specific examples that previously evaded the 'feature' process.

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