[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386945: initscripts: User Mode Linux (UML) doesn't start because /dev/shm is mounted noexec

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> I am quite fine with this, as long as a later (initscript-caused)
> /var mount does not shadow them.

It does, by bind-mounting them away while /var/ is being mounted.

> It would do away with the immediate need to get people to agree on
> /run or /lib/run or whatever.

Yes.  I discovered this while I started to look closer at the ubuntu
patches, and decided to get this done quickly to try to get ifupdown
work asynchroniously, as well as provide uml, dosemu and others with
some place to store their stuff.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen