Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Danek Duvall wrote:
> > Another way is to do what the opengl folks do -- see the ogl-select
> > service.  It's quite similar to what the libc service does, but it
> > overwrites a symlink each time, and does so in a potentially unwriteable
> > directory, so it'll likely have to be fixed at some point.
> 
> When is /var/run potentially unwritable?

Sorry; I misread the script.

The major difference between the two techniques is that the symlink version
means that the library is simply not available until the service runs,
while with the mountpoint, the library is always available, if not in its
optimized form.  Conversely, the mountpoint solution in its current
incarnation hides the underlying library completely, making life difficult
for applications which want to use it explicitly.

Danek

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