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

Arend van Spriel arend
Sun Feb 3 09:31:01 PST 2013


On 02/03/2013 02:56 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:17:13PM +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
>> When /var is a NFS over a WPA2-secured Wi-Fi access point. In that case,
>> wpasupplicant is required to run before /var is mounted.
> 
> Uh, lovely. I would assume this actually works fine with runtime
> configuration. I have no problems noting this type of special cases in
> the documentation, but I don't think this would be enough of a
> justification to change the default behavior.
> 

And in a really sick and twisted world someone could even mount
something on /run. Probably won't work when there are already file
handles created in /run.

Gr. AvS




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