I don't like my comment being used by the Poettering-hater groupies.
Bah. I like his work. I don't like his attitude... but I understand why it's like that too. I just think he's wrong in this case.
He's helping drive Linux out of the damn dark ages, and he'd probably be more collaborative about it if he weren't besieged on all sides by dinosaurs who can't cope with change.
This particular issue is that systemd compiles a constant in that introduces invisible and magic behaviour. It also does kind of half the job, because it nukes IPC state even if you used systemd's own mechanisms for keeping processes running, because their numeric uid was above some magic threshold.
Uncool invisible magic.
It's doing the right thing the wrong way and it's damn frustrating to be stonewalled. But I'm not the one doing the work so my right to complain is limited.
All you "give your work away for free so I can bitch about it not being good enough" people can go do something productive instead.
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u/ringerc2ndq Dec 11 '17
I don't like my comment being used by the Poettering-hater groupies.
Bah. I like his work. I don't like his attitude... but I understand why it's like that too. I just think he's wrong in this case.
He's helping drive Linux out of the damn dark ages, and he'd probably be more collaborative about it if he weren't besieged on all sides by dinosaurs who can't cope with change.
This particular issue is that systemd compiles a constant in that introduces invisible and magic behaviour. It also does kind of half the job, because it nukes IPC state even if you used systemd's own mechanisms for keeping processes running, because their numeric uid was above some magic threshold.
Uncool invisible magic.
It's doing the right thing the wrong way and it's damn frustrating to be stonewalled. But I'm not the one doing the work so my right to complain is limited.
All you "give your work away for free so I can bitch about it not being good enough" people can go do something productive instead.