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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by tinus_hn on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:57AM (#18874748)
Launchd is not a syslog audio daemon dhcp client. It just launches things.
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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by diffeomorphism on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:17AM (#18874926)
Neither is systemd.

Were you thinking of journald,... etc. instead?

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by tinus_hn on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:26PM (#18877142)
> ...you can turn off and replace pretty much any part of systemd, with very few exceptions. And those exceptions (such as journald)...

I’m not sure what your link is supposed to prove.

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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by TimWolla on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:20AM (#18874963)
systemd is not a syslog daemon either. systemd-journald is.
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Re:System Down: A systemd-journald exploit by yarrel on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:29PM (#18876485)
It's funny that two entirely unrelated pieces of software written by separate projects have such similar names.

One of them should really change to avoid this unfortunate confusion.

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