[175542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Thu Oct 23 12:02:47 2014
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:56:59 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
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Randy wrote:
> I've enjoyed kernel hot patches (ksplice) until now.
>
> So my primary concern is that updates to systemd appears to require a
> full reboot:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=300166
>
> Is systemd really like a 2nd 'kernel' -- demanding mass reboots every
> time a security issue is discovered?
>
Well, in the sense that:
- it starts out as PID1 and really, really, wants to take over lots of
low level functions, it sure looks like it's trying to be a 2nd kernel
Miles Fidelman
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