Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

On 03/30/2011 01:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/30/2011 02:10 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> 2011/3/30 Ralf Corsepius<rc040203(a)freenet.de>: >>> On 03/30/2011 01:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >>>> Heya, >>>> >>>> I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a >>>> directory /run in the root directory. Most likely you'll sooner or later >>>> stumble over it, so here's an explanation what this is and why this is. >>>> >>>> It's a fairly minor technical change, >>> It's a massive FHS violation >> FHS has 7 years, must be updated. >> >>> => release blocker. >> Flame! :D > No, it's a no-go/no-way in most verbose form. > If strict FHS compliance was a release criteria it's hard to see how we'd have made it to F15 in the first place.

I also don't think you can really justify the "massive" qualifier in your assertion. The actual text of the (7 year old) FHS has this to say:

I find it interesting that you consider a breach of the "root directory pollution rule" sufficiently serious to be a release blocker

and yet you have apparently remained silent as all the abuses of the /dev directory that Lennart pointed out were merged in previous releases.

Why is that those FHS violations are OK but adding a directory to / (in an obvious effort to address one of the shortcomings of the existing standard) is the end of the world as we know it? No standard is or even should be carved in stone for all eternity.