Re: systemd

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:09:52PM -0300, francis picabia wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > In cases of doubt, I'm against using anythin coming from Lennart
> > Poettering.

Odd, I can't find Ralph's mail in my d-u archive, was it a private one?
Anyway, replying here rather than there since I can't find it.

If you are determined to avoid Lennart's code, you're going to have to
stop running the Linux kernel:

> commit ebec18a6d3aa1e7d84aab16225e87fd25170ec2b
> Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
> Date:   Fri Mar 23 15:01:54 2012 -0700
> 
>     prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision

and

> commit 52a85e17091d2fe9ade6a5d94063e70c5d2a9d5b
> Author: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
> Date:   Thu Jun 4 16:18:13 2009 -0300
> 
>     V4L/DVB (11993): V4L/pwc - use usb_interface as parent, not usb_device

and don't worry, there are more, across many of the core kernel subsystems.