systemd: Is it wrong?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 04:33:35PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 01:49 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >The suggestion isn't that having the options is wrong, it's that having
> >them as the primary means of configuration is poor design. If your
> >entire configuration takes the form of a shell script that constructs a
> >set of command line options then you've increased fragility for no
> >benefit. Having a proper configuration file and allowing admins to
> >override specific aspects of that from the command line isn't a problem.
> >
> This is just your opinion - where in the else it this mantra preached.

These scripts don't sanitise input beforehand. What happens if I'm 
logged in as root, change IFS and then do /etc/init.d/nfs restart? Using 
shell scripts for this is just a bad idea.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org