Not a "bloated, monolithic system"?
Not a "bloated, monolithic system"?
Posted Feb 1, 2019 14:12 UTC (Fri) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385)In reply to: Not a "bloated, monolithic system"? by pizza
Parent article: Systemd as tragedy
> Audit 25 lines of code and also the shell interpreter [1] and also everything else the script invokes. [2]
Already done for other projects, no need to do them again. Arguably if we ever did a systemd audit then we could reuse the result for multiple projects, but nobody wants to be the first.
> grep, psutils, and util-linux as well [3] Don't forget libreadline, ..., libstdc++,
We don't use 'em. It's mostly shell builtins, flock, maybe a couple of C wrappers for a couple of random kernel API calls. 'echo' and /sys/fs/cgroup are sufficient for a lot of use cases. Our scope ends once the application is execve()ed in a correctly configured environment and resumes when the application exits.
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