Introducing /run
Introducing /run
Lennart Poettering has sent out a note warning Fedora users that they will
see a new top-level /run directory soon. "In the past weeks
key people from the Debian, Suse, Ubuntu and Fedora camps (and others, too)
discussed the whole issue forth and back, to find a solution to stop the
misuse of /dev before it becomes even more widespread. Various solutions
have been suggested, but in the end it all boiled down to the fact that
/var/run does not belong beneath /var and what we really want is a
top-level directory /run, and that that is the only really clean
solution. The only reason why nobody dared to actually implement such a
directory was unwillingness to deal with the political backlash, especially
messy discussions on mailing lists like this one.
" The ensuing
discussion has not entirely disappointed, but it looks like /run
will carry the day.