From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:51:33 +0100 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix Message-ID: <20150102125133.GA1492@daedalus> References: <54A672BA.8090209@web.de> <54A679D5.20903@xenomai.org> <54A67CD1.10103@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54A67CD1.10103@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Philippe Gerum: copperplate: add configuration tunable for registry moint point List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Xenomai On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 12:11:13PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2015-01-02 11:58, Philippe Gerum wrote: > > On 01/02/2015 11:28 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 2015-01-01 18:43, xenomai-git-request@xenomai.org wrote: > >>> Module: xenomai-3 > >>> Branch: next > >>> Commit: d351f712bc9b03d621b454b55fe3e46a0000294a > >>> URL: http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-3.git;a=commit;h=d351f712bc9b03d621b454b55fe3e46a0000294a > >>> > >>> Author: Philippe Gerum > >>> Date: Thu Jan 1 18:15:36 2015 +0100 > >>> > >>> copperplate: add configuration tunable for registry moint point > >>> > >>> --enable-registry[=/registry-mount-point] > >>> > >>> Defaults to /mnt/xenomai. > >> > >> Do we really have to leave this as default? Then at least the debian > >> rules must be fixed to use a FHS-conforming path for distributed packages. > >> > > > > I don't care about which default is picked, really. I would agree with > > both options equally, i.e. using /mnt or /var/run, since /mnt has been a > > sensible and documented root for temporary mount points for ages in the > > *nix world, although I find /var/run a reasonable choice for > > non-persistent mount points as well. > > As I explained (and I wasn't alone with this view), this is not a matter > of taste but standard compliance: FHS requires us - as soon as we > consider Xenomai being part of the platform and not some self-written > admin script - to keep away from /mnt. You would have a hard time > finding a distro package that writes to /mnt without being explicitly > told by the admin. And as I explained, the standard sucks. /mnt on the distro I use contains the following directories: cdrecorder cdrom dvd floppy hd memory tmp zip and it puts the following text in /mnt/README The purpose of the /mnt directory is to provide a place for the admin to mount block device temporarily. Any of the subdirectories of /mnt may be used, or volumes may even be mounted directly on /mnt (which is the traditional way of doing things, though /mnt/tmp is also provided for the purpose of mounting any kind of volume temporarily). See the /media directory also. IOW: it leaves the choice to the user. What Philippe does is exactly the same: let the user choose whether he want to use the non standard sotlution that does not suck and that use to be a standard practice in Linux world, or the standard solution that sucks. I thought we agreed this was a sensible solution. -- Gilles. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 173 bytes Desc: not available URL: