[eqvinox]

> I really don’t get why people are so quick to jump on “it changed so it’s bad.”

That's not actually the issue here. Rather: "it changed so now it's inconsistent across platforms"

> There was no way to really win here.

There is:

- if you're changing a multi-platform standard, include the other platforms (e.g. create a coredumpctl tool for *BSD)

- do the changes slowly/incrementally in a backwards-compatible way (e.g. apply the new coredump locations first to read-only containers and service daemons running as systemd units)

[WastingMyTime89]

- It's not a multi-platform standard more a happy accident of history.

- The BSD are irrelevant. Why hamper Linux development to cater for users who don't exist?

[pjmlp]

Forgetting about Aix, HP-UX,....?

It isn't as if it worked the same everywhere anyway.