Introducing /run

Posted Mar 30, 2011 21:43 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Introducing /run by nix
Parent article: Introducing /run

Your less likely to typo with three letters then with 7.

Try typing /etc /etc /etc /etc as fast as you can.
Now try it again with /et_cetera :)

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Introducing /run

Posted Mar 30, 2011 22:16 UTC (Wed) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link] (3 responses)

It's the same three keystrokes either way: /,e,tab

Introducing /run

Posted Mar 30, 2011 22:44 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

You are obviously not using the same shell that people did when they came up with the names.

Anyways... /runtime is no more illustrative of the purpose of the directory then /run.

Introducing /run

Posted Mar 31, 2011 2:44 UTC (Thu) by pyellman (guest, #4997) [Link]

The term 'runtime' appears regularly as the key word in the explanation of this directory's purpose.

Introducing /run

Posted Mar 31, 2011 21:39 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Quite, and "because it was called /var/run before" does not strike me as a good reason to keep doing it. Or we wouldn't be tinkering with the contents of / in the first place :-) This could be a golden opportunity to introduce some meaningful names into the filesystem, in the era of tab-completion.

Introducing /run

Posted Mar 31, 2011 2:32 UTC (Thu) by pyellman (guest, #4997) [Link]

I tried it before asking, and actually, for run vs runtime, I find little difference, even without tab completion.