[ale] Systemd rants (was bow head)

[Solomon Peachy]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 06:36:22PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Strawman because nobody was discussing "coalescing malloc 
> implementations" nor any kind of CS course. The discussion (so neatly 
> snipped from the quote) was about how simple runit is, so simple in 
> fact that I basically bolted together a similar init out of Suckless 
> Init, daemontools-encore, and a few home-grown shellscripts.

Since you're also incapable of understanding subtelties, let me be more 
direct. Writing an init and a malloc implementation were just two of the 
many exercises expected of all students enrolled in CS3411 in the late 
'90s at Georgia Tech.

So, again, congratulations on your college-junior-level accomplishment, 
but your appeal to self-authority doesn't really stand for much when 
what you've described is documented in the 20-year old textbook 
("Operating System Concepts" by Galvin et al) used by that class, to say 
nothing about the excellent texts about UNIX internals by W. Richard 
Stephens and literally decades worth of UNIX and BSD source code that's 
out there for anyone to peruse should they feel inclined.

So, why is this point relevant?  It's simple -- you seem to be 
completely incapable of grasping the essential premise for systemd; 
Namely that traditional init is _too_ simple for the demands of modern 
systems.  How, pray tell, does presenting an even _simpler_ option 
provide a counterpoint to that argument?

Here's a hint: It doesn't, and in doing so, you committed a strawman 
fallacy of your very own in the process.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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