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

[John Reiser]

On 03/30/2011 11:01 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:55 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I have better things to do than spend my morning looking through old
> changelogs and freeze dates, thanks. Are you really suggesting it's
> never happened?

Giving specific examples, instead of only claiming "lots of times",
will help focus the discussion towards what really matters.
Terms with differing interpretations tend to feed flame wars.
If not even one specific case can be named from memory then
"lots of times" is doubtful.

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