On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Larry McVoy wrote:
"The new alternative does no such sleight of
hand. Instead, it just gets the
systemd daemon to run the command for you, using a special form of the existing
systemd-run command."
Sounds like a new path for exploits. We'll see if Mr Systemd has to eat
some crow in the future. Said by a guy who _hates_ systemd.
systemd is the thing that should not be.
If I had successfully gotten my project up (trying to get a standalone
kernel/libc/clang build environment up and running - either Linux/musl or
NetBSD) it would run a rewrite of the SysV init system (not "sysvinit",
that's GPL).
-uso.