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

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:39 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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?

That's addressed in the initial proposal. It's a subdir of /var, which
doesn't get mounted early enough.
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