This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

Posted Feb 5, 2014 17:20 UTC (Wed) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
In reply to: This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns" by lainfinity
Parent article: This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

This "analysis" is so totally flawed that it's not even funny.

Remarkably, the ~900 files count roughly corresponds to the number of files in the whole src/ subtree of the systemd git repo. That includes udev. And multiple libraries for talking to udev. You also include a whole slew of command programs for various purposes like a top(1) equivalent for cgroups or a program for generating bootchart graphs in SVG format.

Those things are all nice and stuff but they don't have anything to do with PID 1. You'll probably run udev even when going with another /sbin/init.

Now what about glib? It's not loaded into my systemd process. So where does it come from? Apparently from gudev which is a convenience library(!) for talking to udev.

Then there's the whole of logind. And more.

Now, you don't have any clue what you're talking about, right? The other possibility would be worse.

This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

Posted Feb 5, 2014 18:13 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

So, just a little observation.

While your comment seems technically very informative, the "You don't have any clue ..." comment at the end possibly is not terribly productive. It's personal and it's the kind of thing that can make discussions more heated than they need to be. If the other person's understanding is deficient, it is more than enough to demonstrate that with technical points (and the audience will hold that to your credit). :)

This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

Posted Feb 5, 2014 18:56 UTC (Wed) by lsl (subscriber, #86508) [Link]

Yes, you're right. It was unnecessary. I added a comment.

Thanks for noting it.

This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

Posted Feb 5, 2014 18:55 UTC (Wed) by lsl (subscriber, #86508) [Link]

Scrap the last part. This was unwarranted. Sorry for that, lainfinity.