On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/12/2013 12:43 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> 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? > > I like it. --runstatedir seems reasonable to me; especially along the > lines of naming the option by WHY it exists rather than WHAT directory > name is typically used for that option. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >
--runstatedir looks good to me. Since Stefano was hoping someone would write the automake patch I'll take a swag at it using "runstatedir". -- Doug Goldstein
