[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Allowing the exec flag for /dev/shm/ until etch is released?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

As you probably have noticed in bug #386945, User Mode Linux fail to
run when /dev/shm/ is mounted noexec.  We should ask them to fix it,
but at the moment we have no alternative tmpfs file system for it to
use.  ifupdown is also storing stuff in /dev/shm/, but get away with
it as it is only creating normal files.  As I see it, we have two
options:

 - Drop the noexec flag from /dev/shm/ until etch is released, and
   come up with a solution post-etch.

 - Make some other tmpfs instead of /dev/shm/ available in time for
   etch.  This was discussed on debian-devel@ a while back, and no
   conclusion was reached.  /run/ and /lib/run was proposed.  My
   favorite is /lib/run/, to hide it away from /.

I suspect we will need to provide the second option sooner or later,
and would prefer it to be available in etch.  I plan to switch to
tmpfs for /var/run/ and /var/lock/ after etch, and I guess /var/run/
could be bind-mounted from /lib/run/ when /var/ is mounted, to avoid
having too many tmpfs file systems around.  Or perhaps making
/var/run/ and /var/lock/ subdirectories in the /lib/run/ directory?

Any comments or other suggestions?

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen