[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

[Peter Samuelson]

[Kurt Roeckx]
> Afaik, Ubuntu is already using this.  As a result, I've actually got a
> bug against my package submitted because it didn't handle it.   My
> package now recreates the directory from the init script if it's
> missing, and I'm not really happy about that solution.

Why not?  'mkdir -p' (or 'install -d' if you need a non-root owner or
custom permissions) is a quick one-liner.  I'd much rather my system
didn't assume that /var/run or /tmp or /dev/shm will retain anything at
all between reboots.
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