On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:35:12 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> As I understand it, that's precisely what William's plan is.
>
> $ ls -ld /var/{lock/run}
> /var/lock -> /run/lock
> /var/run -> /run/
>
> This should work transparently for all existing applications.
>
> The only way this would fail is if they do an incorrect stat() on
> /var/run and error out if it's a symbolic link. OTOH, it's precisely
> to iron out such kinks that we have ~arch.
What if a daemon tries to do braindead compat attempt through creating
a pidfile in both directories?
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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