Move var/locks/.nmbd to var/nmbd for 3.6.0?

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:43:43PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:35:48PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 20:17 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:53:33PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > > > I don't get why, /tmp is not the only directory in a filesystem.
> > > > As I said in Fedora/RHEL we simply moved the pipe to /var/run/winbindd
> > > > what's the problem with that ?

> > > Someone might in the future make per-user /var/run.

> > Don't be silly ...

> I find per-user /tmp pretty drastic, so those doing that
> will not stop making everything per-user.

/var/run is specified in the FHS as a directory for storing system-level
state, not user-level state; this is an essential difference between
/var/run and /tmp.  I don't think there's any real risk of this happening.

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