A backdoor in xz

Posted Apr 1, 2024 14:08 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: A backdoor in xz by DimeCadmium
Parent article: A backdoor in xz

FWIW, by porting a system from SysV init to systemd, I was able to close several hard-to-reproduce bugs, since systemd's extra complexity allowed me to remove a ton of complexity from the various scripts that started components of the system, and at least some of that complexity turned out to have race conditions in it that systemd did not have.

There is a huge advantage to one implementation of something done well replacing (in my case) 5 different implementations, all with different bugs.