From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 28 13:50:51 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F4637B71D; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:50:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA29872; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA34247; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:23:56 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:23:56 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20010328232355.A33197@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <200103281105.f2SB5Um54076@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200103281105.f2SB5Um54076@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:05:30PM +0100 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Brian Somers wrote: > 4.2-release (rc 1.212.2.8) had a ``rm /var/run/*'' which removed these > sockets. purgedir() was used instead in version 1.212.2.13 to > prevent problems when people create directories under /var/run. Btw., Solaris recently started to use a /var/run, and they even implemented it as a MFS (alias `tmpfs' in Solaris speak). I think any application that wants a directory substructure there should take precautions to ensure it could be created if missing. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message