Bug#620870: debian-policy: Please add /run as FHS exception
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.
Hmm? The only acceptable access to /dev/shm (and therefore /run/shm) by
normal applications is through the SYSV shmem API. Wider distro acceptance
is a non-issue.
That doesn't mean I think it is a good idea to move it to /run, I think it
is a bad idea.
IMHO the only interesting use-case for /run/shm seems to be breaking for
good any crap that still abuses /dev/shm, which is not nearly enough a good
reason to mess with it. I consider storing shm data inside the /run
filesystem to be a misfeature (as opposed to having it as a separete tmpfs),
so "merging" it with /run is exactly what I'd not like to see happening.
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Henrique Holschuh
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