[PATCH] Migrate from /var/run to /run

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:34:33AM +0100, Jouke Witteveen wrote:
> Follow an FHS proposal[1] that is already implemented on some major
> distributions.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718

How many of those distributions that have implemented this do not have a
symlink from /var/run to /run? I'm apparently using one system where
that change has happened, but to this date, I had not noticed any issues
with using /var/run never mind being aware of such change having
occurred. It would sound more likely to me that new systems have such
symlink than older ones handle /run.. Not that this really should matter
much since apart from the wpa_gui one (and wpa_priv, which almost nobody
uses), these should all be configurable at both build and runtime.

Please also note that wpa_supplicant and hostapd are supposed to work on
systems other than Linux, too.. In addition, many Linux systems seem to
be happily using other locations even without this patch.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA