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starfry

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 238

Moving of /var/run/daemons to /run/daemons

Hi, just curious here. Why was the location of the "daemons" files representing running daemons moved from /var/run/daemons to /run/daemons ?

I note this happened around April 9th.
(http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 00576.html)

Was there a problem with the original location?

Just interested.

Cheers.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Moving of /var/run/daemons to /run/daemons

If there was no discussion on the ML about this, it's best to ask there.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Moving of /var/run/daemons to /run/daemons

It's because /run is mounted as a tmpfs so it has write access at any time during the boot process which isn't the case with /var. It fixes some problems.