Il 12/09/2013 00:12, Karl Berry ha scritto: > 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.
Not really because of that, more because the GNU Coding Standards use --localstatedir rather than --vardir. > Other ideas? What about --runstatedir or --runtimestatedir? Paolo > k > > P.S. Paolo, you're right about the two parentheticals. I noticed that > before I sent the text to rms and made a trivial edit to avoid it. > > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:42:35 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > Subject: Re: --rundir for coding standards > > [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider > [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, > [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. > > Now it is clear what these files do. However, the name --rundir is > totally misleading. > > The name /var/run is misleading too, but since it's under /var, people > will know it is meant to contain some files made by programs for some > sort of case. > > --rundir lacks that helpful context, so the misleadingness goes > uncorrected. It sounds like a way to specify the directory to run > some program in. > > How about --varrundir? > >
