Re: Warning: upcoming systemd issue: /var/run

[Greg Troxel]

Frank Nicholas <frank@nicholasfamilycentral.com> writes:

>> The real question is: Is there anything but Debian that has adopted
>> /run?  I view this as a Debian oddity, not the normal case.
>
> Gentoo Linux has /var/run symlink’d to /run.  Has been this way for a while I 
> think (since 2015 when /run was added?).  I think /run is the preferred, and 
> the link is for compatibility.
>
> Looks like Arch Linux is doing the same thing (found this while looking for 
> the Gentoo history):
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmpfs 
> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmpfs>
>
> And it looks like it dates back to 2011 and was caused/changed for 
> systemd/udev (part of systemd):
> https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ <https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/>
>
> So most/all OS’s that support systemd have /run configured this way?  (I use 
> Gentoo w/o systemd).

Thanks.  So this seems to be about GNU/Linux systems that use systemd.
Gary's going to to love that!