Introducing /run

Posted Mar 30, 2011 22:44 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Introducing /run by andrel
Parent article: Introducing /run

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 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.