Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

Fri Oct 24 20:34:12 UTC 2014

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff at ocjtech.us>

> > If that doesn't suffice, then I suspect it will only require waiting
> > a little while until a demonstration of why monolithic integration
> > is a bad idea will be provided by someone who is at this moment
> > studying the large-and-growing attack surface presented by systemd.
> >
> > I hope I'm wrong about that. I'm probably not.
> 
> Software is software. I'm sure that bugs (including security bugs)
> will be found. Film at 11. Nothing new here.

Nope, Jeff; you've entirely missed it:

On a non-systemd distribution, the odds are good that a) that bug is in code
not running as root nor b) in PID1 where if it locks up it takes the whole
box with it, and also c) I can just put my thumb down on that one piece and
turn it off; that's almost certainly and almost always not true in systemd.

That's what's new here.

As I noted in another posting, that Unix Philosophy happened for a reason.

Cheers,
-- jra
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