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by inferiorhuman 2906 days ago
> But all those words are meaningless. "stable" and "well understood" could also be said of systemd.

Bugs like this:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/05/linux_systemd_grant...

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6077

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9449

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9079

Indicate that systemd interactions aren't particularly well thought out.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8730

Non-deterministic behavior is exactly what I'd strive to avoid in an init system.

Stuff like this:

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_...

Indicates both poor understanding of how an init system should work (including basics like privilege separation) and poor stability.

Stuff like this:

https://threatpost.com/linux-systemd-bug-could-have-led-to-c...

Well, I for one do not want my init system to be network accessible.