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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/30/2011 03:20 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> 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.

How about /var/run ??

What would be wrong with it?


Or /var/lib/systemd ??

This would open up all liberties for systemd, what ever idea it may come 
up with in future.

Ralf