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

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 11:16 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> 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.

Please see the better response Rahul gave, and consider this sub-thread
dead =)
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