systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

[Steve Clark]

On 06/10/2011 09:36 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 03:07 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> I understand your desire to replace everything by systemd.
>> I really do. syslogd, klogd, mount, fsck, and a dozen other things
>> I forget or don't know.
> You're exaggerating.
>
>> Why does systemd link against libpam?
>> systemd does logins now, not /bin/login or gdm or ...?
> to implement PAMName= (man systemd.exec)
>
>> libattr? Does it mean it requires filesystem which implements
>> extended attributes? If not, why does it use libattr then?
> systemd uses libcap. libcap depends on libattr.
>
>> libwrap? systemd is a network application now too?
> to implement TCPWrapName= (man systemd.exec)
>
>> libaudit? What systemd has in common with audit?
> Start and stop of a service is an auditable event.
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-August/141543.html
>
>> To be honest, I doubt the wisdom of implementing service manager
>> as an init process. There is no inherent reason why it has to be init -
>> you can run it as *a child of init*, and keep init very simple.
>> Then, if service manager would crash, at least it doesn't
>> take system down with it...
> systemd does not take the system down when it crashes. It catches the
> signal, dumps core and freezes, but does not exit.
>                         ^^^^^^^
So you just end up with a "froze" system instead of a crashed system????
> Michal


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