Bug#727708: upstart proposed policy in Debian [and 1 more messages]
]] Russ Allbery
> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
>
> > sd-daemon.c is also intentionally designed to not have dependencies on
> > the rest of the systemd source and to be portable to non-linux
> > architectures too (but basically just stubs then) just so people can put
> > the file in their source and not have to fiddle with checking for
> > libraries and such if they find that tedious.
>
> I agree with Ian's dislike of this approach. We try to avoid embedded
> code copies, and I'm not sure why this would be an exception. Yes, the
> code is fairly simple and hopefully doesn't contain (for example) security
> vulnerabilities, but it's possible to find bugs in just about anything.
Sure. There's a tradeoff as always. I wanted to point out that
embedding it is intentionally easy.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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