Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] Misc cleanups & fixes to LXC driver

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote: (Slightly off-topic). Can you cite a reference in the LSB or other documentation / discussion that describes why linking "/var/run" to "/run" is bad, and "../run" is preferred? I've spent 30 minutes digging through Gentoo discussion archives and found lots of notes about making it a link to "/run". If this is ill-advised, and I can cite a reference, I'll forward it the Gentoo init-script maintainer. There are many notes on the internet to use "/var/run -> /run". Other than your help yesterday, I've not found one reference to use "../run". This suggests that the existing findable documentation is incorrect. http://askubuntu.com/questions/57297/why-has-var-run-been-migrated-to-run http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/267752 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/the-unsolved-problem-of-the-init-scripts Unfortunately, so far I am unable to find any canonical (offical) (not the Ubuntu Canonical!) Gentoo documentation on _why_ they symlink "/var/run" to "/run" instead of "../run". However, they are migrating their init scripts to use "/run" instead of "/var/run".