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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 30.03.11 15:08, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) wrote:

> 
> On 03/30/2011 02:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Wed, 30.03.11 18:04, Rahul Sundaram (metherid at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> 
> > Also, can somebody point me to the place where the FHS would say "no
> > other directories below / are allowed"? I can't find that. And hence
> > this change is perfectly FHS compliant.
> 
> It's in the preface of the root file system section:
> 
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM
> 
> <cite>
> Applications must never create or require special files or 
> subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations in the FHS 
> hierarchy provide more than enough flexibility for any package.
> </cite>

Well, we are not an "application", are we?

Lennart

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