3 Jul
2021
3 Jul
'21
3:56 a.m.
After rattling around in the back of a train car with nothing but my
thoughts, I emerged and said:
"systemd is a pox on our way of life"
and then promptly rolled over and went back to sleep.
-Henry
On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 17:38, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
As I started reading it I found plenty to disagree
with in the first few
paragraphs but they completely lost me at "After all, moving from System
V init scripts to systemd has arguably improvedthe Linux boot sequence."
Um, no, just, no.
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 03:24:20PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
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In this week's BSDNow.tv podcast, available
at
https://www.bsdnow.tv/409
there is a story about a new conference paper on the Unix shell. The
paper is available at
Unix shell programming: the next 50 years
HotOS '21: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, 1 June, 2021--3 June, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1145/3458336.3465294
The tone is overall negative, though they do say nice things about
Doug McIlroy and Steve Johnson, and they offer ideas about
improvements.
List readers will have their own views of the paper. My own is that,
despite its dark corners, the Bourne shell has served us
extraordinarily well, and I have been writing in it daily for decades
without being particularly bothered by the many issues raised by the
paper's authors. Having dealt with so-called command shells on
numerous other operating systems, at least the Unix shells rarely get
in my way.
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