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In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org)
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."
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."
No, it's both. There was a valid problem: sysvinit was decrepit and unsuitable for modern systems, as seen by the fact that every other Unix system out there has abandoned it and has something that resembles systemd in some way (Solaris has SMF, MacOSX has something else).
That is clueless nonsense. For most situations, sysVinit works just fine. SMF, incidentally, has its own problems and many Solaris admins really hate it, but it can deal with unmodified sysVinit scripts.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.