Bug 454338

Summary:	openrc-0.11.8: Needless clean of tmpfs /run + /tmp (on LXC)
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Walter <walter>
Component:	OpenRC	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	439098

Description Walter 2013-01-27 21:31:07 UTC

Under LXC one might typically mount /run and /tmp as tmpfs from the host environment.

OpenRC should probably avoid the two processes in bootmisc titled "Cleaning /var/run..." and "Wiping /tmp directory..." if they are tmpfs-mounted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot within LXC with /run and /tmp tmpfs-mounted

Actual Results:  
Needless processes execute.

Expected Results:  
No such processes execute.

If you take the view that it's safer to just wipe these things and the processes  should run anyway, in the case that either location is already empty then at least OpenRC could then avoid executing these processes.

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2013-02-16 08:14:04 UTC

A fix for this has been implemented in commit 1831e43 and will be in
openrc-0.12.