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Re:Systemd v228 local root exploit by JdeBP on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:42AM (#13505622)
Anyone who erroneously thinks that van Smoorenburg rc is bug free hasn't spent time fixing the whole host of faulty, incomplete, and rickety van Smoorenburg rc scripts that exist.

It is also erroneous to propound the old There Is Only System 5 init And systemd fallacy, which is just bunkum.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477512

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Re:Systemd v228 local root exploit by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:23AM (#13506392)
I'm well aware there are other inits: OpenRC, BSDinit, Runit, s6/s6-rc, and many others are all better alternatives to both sysvinit and systemd. I was making the sysvinit comparison here for simplicity's sake.

>Anyone who erroneously thinks that van Smoorenburg rc is bug free hasn't spent time fixing the whole host of faulty, incomplete, and rickety van Smoorenburg rc scripts that exist.

I never said it was bug-free, I said that the problems with the rc scripts aren't inherent to the sysvinit model.

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