Re: question about systemd
On 10/11/2014 12:20 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 11 Oct 2014 at 12:49:15 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:53:20 +0300
>> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You might want to check your facts:
>>>
>>> Linus Torvalds "only" created the Linux kernel, which is notoriously
>>> monolithic[1].
>>>
>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate
>>
>> This is very true, but the kernel knows its boundaries, and doesn't try
>> to conquor all sorts of other, non-related, subsystems.
>
> What does that mean? It sounds deep but plumbing the depths of its
> shallowness is a task for someone with more time than the universe has
> got.
>
>
It's pretty simple. The kernel has actual, literal boundaries, which it
enforces. The part of the system you use is outside those boundaries,
with certain mechanisms for passing data between user-space and
kernel-space. If you took time away from insulting people on mailing
lists to crack a book once in a while, you might know that.
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