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Re: Why do we have to support tmpfs for /var/run (policy changes in 3.8.1)



On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:40:57PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Interesting - The unix way IMHO was that /tmp looses content on reboot
>> while /var/tmp did not. This had been the case for commercial Unices for
>> at least some decades.
>
> I'm pretty sure Michael meant /var/lock when he said /var/tmp above.
> Policy 3.8.1 doesn't change anything about /var/tmp.

The embedded devices I mentioned in another message in this thread
have /var/tmp as a tmpfs too.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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