apmd and other archs
Avery Pennarun
apenwarr at worldvisions.ca
Thu Nov 23 22:08:08 EST 2000
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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