Re: /run and needing a --rundir for configure

[Paolo Bonzini]

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Il 13/09/2013 05:01, Eric Blake ha scritto:
> On 09/11/2013 04:12 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>> rms wants --varrundir instead of --rundir for the option name.  I
>> expect there will be objections to that name because of wanting
>> to use /run. Other ideas?
>> 
> 
> While writing patches to use the new variable (whatever it gets
> named), I noticed that the original proposal:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
> 
> also mentions that distros want to use /lock instead of /var/lock
> for storing lock files, which have yet another class of semantics.
> Should we also be adding support for a variable defaulting to 
> $(localstatedir)/lock but allowing the use of /lock?

A few years after that article, I have /run/lock on my machine and a
symlink from /var/lock to it, so I think $(runstatedir)/lock is a
better choice.  Perhaps we can document it together with runstatedir.

Paolo
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