[fhs-discuss] /run ins FHS?

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Mon May 9 09:33:28 PDT 2011


On Mon, 9 May 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> ]] R P Herrold
>
> | If a given distribution ** wants ** the support load of NOT
> | having enough info remaining persistent to diagnose state by
> | simple inspection, on their head be it --- but we do not need
> | to FORCE all to so suffer
>
> I think it makes sense to require applications to not assume that the
> contents are persistent across reboots.  This does not tie the hands of
> distributions, but require that using a tmpfs (or similar) will work.

no objection here to adding such a caveat

-- Russ herrold


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