Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 16, 2016 16:18 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Distributors ponder a systemd change by smoogen
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

> He gets angry about the amount of band-aids he is already carrying around, but this is in many ways the fact that the users already have too many of the old around and can not just fork lift fix their infrastructure at his urging.

The problem is that your "band-aid" is Lennart's security hole. All these band aids are unnecessary code, that is more likely than average to harbour bugs (and hide bugs in the other program too), and are dangerous things to leave lying around. And this example is classic - leaving processes lying around because the system can't/won't get rid of them by default is exactly that! If they're buggy enough not to shut down, how many other bugs do they harbour?

Cheers,
Wol