systemd: Is it wrong?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sun Jul 10 21:37:08 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 04:19:05PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:

> If root decides to shoot themselves in the foot, they're going to find a
> way.  That is again an argument at the extreme theoretical end of
> possibility and not the common case.  You are just making !$#@ up now;
> you have yet to come up with legitimate technical arguments.

Solutions that make it difficult for root to shoot themselves in the 
foot are better than solutions that don't. Make everything possible, but 
make dangerous things harder than safe things. That's entirely in line 
with Unix philosophy.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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