Re: /run and needing a --rundir for configure

[Eric Blake]

On 09/11/2013 04:12 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> rms wants --varrundir instead of --rundir for the option name.  I expect
> there will be objections to that name because of wanting to use /run.
> Other ideas?
> 

While writing patches to use the new variable (whatever it gets named),
I noticed that the original proposal:

http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/

also mentions that distros want to use /lock instead of /var/lock for
storing lock files, which have yet another class of semantics.  Should
we also be adding support for a variable defaulting to
$(localstatedir)/lock but allowing the use of /lock?

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