Subject: Re: [vserver] [WARNING] rc script might wipe your guests
From: Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:57:47 +0200

Ed W wrote:
> It's very, very rare that you want to follow symlinks when deleting 
> things...
> There was probably something very specific about the way they are 
> running /var/lock or /var/run which made them think it was useful?

My guess is that they had a case where /var/lock or /var/run (i.e. the 
toplevel directory) was itself a symlink. Of course the right way to 
solve that is use the paths /var/lock/. and /var/run/. instead of the -L 
flag.

Christian.