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In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the permissions-please dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader jawtheshark writes: In a recent Linux Kernel Mailing List post, Linux Torvalds finishes his mail with a little poke towards a certain init system. It is a very faint criticism, compared to his usual style. While Linus has no direct influence on the "choices" of distro maintainers, his opinion is usually valued.
In a discussion about how to set rlimit default values for setuid execs, Linus concluded his email by writing, "And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why."

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  1. Eventually systemd will replace the kernel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus knows his time is short

    Repent, Linus, and maybe systemd will allow your kernel to run as a background process for housekeeping and legacy tasks.

  2. Not very sytemd like by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely in the systemd era, we should be deprecating setuid on executables, and replacing it with some kind of systemd api. This provides a much more modern "unified" approach then all that minimalist, modular rubbish that infected the system for so long.

  3. Joke? by amiga3D · · Score: 1, Funny

    It init funny. Not at all.

  4. Re:You all presumably know why. by TWX · · Score: 3, Funny

    So SystemD is the Emacs of init?

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  5. Re:You all presumably know why. by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what editor do you use?

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