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From:	Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:56:52 -0500
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Subject:	Re: non-persistent storage?
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:45 PM Erik Soderquist wrote:
> This is very hacky, but I believe you can get the effect you want by
> having an admin process auto-start at host startup, identify itself,
> and then set parts of its own /proc/ process ID tree as world
> read/write.  I think this will give you the "destroyed even at power
> failure" impermanence you are l,booking for.  I know it is not in the
> normal layouts (like /var/run/ would be), but we are working around
> limitation s imposed by Windows.

To "move"to /var/run/, the process could also build symlinks to the
location(s) in /proc/ so the other programs/users have a stable
/var/run/ location and only the auto-started process needs to know or
care about the locations in /proc/

-- Erik

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