On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 03:54:30PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > If I'm reading the initscripts code correctly, sysvinit does the reverse > by default, for some reason (/run/shm is the mount point and /dev/shm the > symlink). I think the motivation might have been to be able to use the > same tmpfs for /run and /run/shm,
I recall this being a misguided attempt to move it out of /dev "because it's not a device". The migration did not go well, especially in the face of chroots that need to have it mounted, and since systemd did not handle this the same way sysvinit had, we effectively now have a mess in the other direction. We should fix it so that everything again treats /dev/shm as the mountpoint. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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