Am 28. Sep, 2016 schwätzte Stephen M so: moin moin Stephen, yeah, I'm not pissed that there's a bug. In fact, the fix was committed rather quickly. I do think there's merit to thinking about some of the guy's points as they apply to a particular environment. Granted, the kernel is run in the same "memory-unsafe language" he's complaining about and has more than root access :). ciao, der.hans > Well that would definitely be a problem but it does give people chances to > fix things and grow. So if we didn't have problems like systemd pausing, > though never tried this before on my Fedora system with systemd. It does > give developer and other computer enthusiast a challenge to solve. What > would the world be like if everything was perfect and nothing ever fail out > of sync. This will just be something that someone new coming into the work > of Linux learns and adapts to. > > I'm sure there are stories of before with the introduction of init, SysV, > Berkeley standard, so it's bond to happen again. > > Thanks Hans for the great articles. > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 04:19:37 +0000 (UTC) >> "der.hans" wrote: >> >>> moin moin, >>> >>> an important systemd fix is on it's way into distributions. >>> >>> https://marc.ttias.be/oss-security/2016-09/msg00243.php >>> >>> The following article has a click-bait title :(, but some salient >>> things to consider for systemd. >>> >>> https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet >> >> I fixed systemd by switching to Void Linux, which uses the runit init >> system. >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.PhxLinux.org/ # "Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something." # -- Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride