From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:08:08 -0800
From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
To: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
        Hadess <hadess@writeme.com>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: apmd and other archs
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:40:15AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> > > > /proc/apm and /dev/apm_bios are so simple that it should be easy to
> > > > convince any power management system to provide those API's.
> > >
> > > The info logged to /proc/apm is currently logged to /etc/power/apm. I
> >
> > Is this a typo?  Why is status information in /etc?
>
> Because it's from pmud, which can't create /proc entries.

Then it should go in /var, I think.  We have standards for this stuff.
(FSSTND, FHS, Debian policy.)  I might want to mount /etc read-only (and
/usr too, while I'm at it)... and this sounds like it would prevent me from
doing so.

Thanks,

Avery


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