Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by JdeBP on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:08AM
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Let me suggest an incendiary example: systemd
systemctl status wibble.service : Displays human-readable information, with colours, line drawings, and variable-length free-form text; that is exceedingly hard for a program to parse reliably.
Contrast with
systemctl show wibble.service : Outputs machine-readable information, in systemd's favourite form of a Windows INI file.
Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by bandrami on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:11AM
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Yikes. Makes me glad I run Slackware. Though I seem to recall from The Init Wars that it was precisely this quality of SystemD that made people lob the charge that it violated the "Unix philosophy"
systemctl status wibble.service : Displays human-readable information, with colours, line drawings, and variable-length free-form text; that is exceedingly hard for a program to parse reliably.
Contrast with
systemctl show wibble.service : Outputs machine-readable information, in systemd's favourite form of a Windows INI file.