[fhs-discuss] user-specific directories in /run

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:23:11PM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 12:02 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 02:42:03PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >> Well, I certainly always had in mind creating /run/user, when we pushed
> >> for /run.

> > Well, it certainly wasn't in *our* minds.

> Looking at it from a FHS perspective, it seems we have two proposals. 
> /run itself isn't controversial, and though /run/user is, distros should 
> be free to use it or not as long as $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR has some sane 
> implementation.

> So, we should specify /run in the FHS and leave /run/user as an 
> implementation detail for the XDG spec.

> Does that sound about right?

I quite agree.

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