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Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception



Am 08.06.2011 23:22, schrieb Bill Allombert:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:25:18AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have attached the full patch against current policy.git.  This is
>> identical to the previous patches, with the addition of a single
>> sentence to the footnote:
>>
>> "Additionally, the subdirectory <file>/run/shm</file> is a replacement
>> for <file>/dev/shm</file>."
>>
>> This is to update the previous draft with the current set of mounts
>> on /run established by initscripts at boot time (/run, /run/lock and
>> /run/shm).  I have put this sentence after the comment about the
>> FHS because TTBOMK this is not currently in the initial FHS proposal,
>> though I will bring it up on the FHS list as an optional feature (this
>> subdirectory has not yet been adopted more widely).  If this addition
>> is not useful (it's not a top-level dir), I can remove it.
> 
> Hello Cyril and Michael,
> 
> Are you willing to resecond this as the final version ?


At the current state, I'm not for adding /run/shm to debian-policy.
If we can get wider acceptance of this feature (cross-distro), then my position
on this might change. Atm this looks like a Debian-only feature with no real
use-case why we need that.

Cheers,
Michael

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