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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again
Date: 16 Feb 2025 04:19:28 GMT
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On 15 Feb 2025 00:28:44 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<m1a5drFdifrU1@mid.individual.net>:

> On 14 Feb 2025 21:43:32 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>> /run is actually a tmpfs mount, so it goes away on reboot.
> 
> Understood, but until reboot does it keep caching data? The Ubuntu box has 
> been rebooted recently as I tried to solve a sound problem but the Fedora 
> box has been up for 39 days. That's hardly a record. Often the machines 
> are up until a power outage exceeds the UPS capacity.

That depends on whether or not the specific applications police after
themselves.

A lot of things go in /run on modern desktops, such as mtp mounts from
your phone.  That's also where the utmp lives, as well as various pid files.

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