[fhs-discuss] user-specific directories in /run

[Rusty Russell]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:30:54 +0200, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> The advantages of /run/user/$USER is the guaranteed cleanup and private
> namespace, which makes it very easy to write safe code that doesn't
> pollute the file systemd over long.

/tmp/user/$USER would have exactly the same properties (assuming
/tmp/user was created at boot).

If you don't want it in tmpfs, you could bind mount it or symlink it
somewhere else.

This seems marginally closer to FHS as it stands.  Is there a
consideration I am missing?

Thanks,
Rusty.