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

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > It is outside of the FHS,
> It's a clear violation of the FHS.

Indeed, but there really is no suitable FHS-compliant location for files
of these types, so we had no choice but to violate the standard up to
now: nothing has changed in this respect.  As I see things, the proposal
is just to violate it in a much cleaner, co-ordinated and standardised
way.

Alasdair