linux-kernel - Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

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Message-ID: <20140813095402.GH9918@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:54:02 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>
Cc:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Christopher Barry <christopher.r.barry@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:37:28AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 
> Also I think:
> 
> martin@...kaba:~> ls -l /sbin/init
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40648 Aug  3 21:01 /sbin/init
> martin@...kaba:~> ls -l /bin/systemd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug  6 13:41 /bin/systemd -> /lib/systemd/systemd
> martin@...kaba:~> ls -l /lib/systemd/systemd
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1084816 Aug  6 13:42 /lib/systemd/systemd
> 
> martin@...kaba:~> apt list 2>&1 | egrep "(^systemd/|sysvinit-core)"
> systemd/unstable,now 208-7 amd64 [installed]
> sysvinit-core/unstable,now 2.88dsf-53.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> 
> is highly worrying. A one MiB binary as PID 1? Really?

Yeah, utterly insane. PID 1 should not be doing these things; no single
process should do as much as systemd does, PID 1 least of all.

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