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Re: configuring /var/run with newer autoconf
- From: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- To: Åukasz Stelmach <l dot stelmach at samsung dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:05:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: configuring /var/run with newer autoconf
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:52:36AM +0200, Åukasz Stelmach wrote:
> > but you also have another option and what most people have been doing:
> > c) symlink /var/run to /run
>
> This does not help to avoid deadlocks at all.
You can put the /var/run symlink on the root fs (as well as on the /var fs),
so that it is available before the mount of /var as well.
Segher