[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: Re: Arbitrary restrictions (e.g. for RuntimeDirectory)

[Martin Pitt]

Hello all,

Ulrich Windl [2019-05-14  8:35 +0200]:
> I knew that. It doesn't answer _why_ /var/run is obsolete.

The short reason is that /var can be on a separate partition, so it's not
available during early mount or late shutdown, or in a rescue environment with
only the root fs mounted. Some adventurous people even have it on NFS.

Martin