Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr...
by throw0101a on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:51AM
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> It’s a good default too since it’s weird that “logging out” doesn’t imply “and end all my programs.”
It may be a good default if you're starting from scratch, but GNU Screen has came out in 1987. (Poettering was 7 years old then.)
> This is basically the same behavior as Windows […]
Comparing it to Windows' behaviour is not going to win you any positive points with me. :)
> This is a feature that sysadmins have been asking for.
As a sysadmin this breaks my own daily workflow. I have 400 VMs that are treated as pets and I probably screen sessions on at least a third of them. (I have another 500 that are cattle-like.)
> And they’re not breaking any POSIX behavior. Nowhere does it say when the system isn’t allowed to kill a process.
Aka, malicious compliance. See also: nowhere does it say that the US President cannot fire the FBI Director. Also: nowhere does it say that the US Senate has to hold hearings when a US President nominates a judge for the US Supreme Court.
It may be a good default if you're starting from scratch, but GNU Screen has came out in 1987. (Poettering was 7 years old then.)
> This is basically the same behavior as Windows […]
Comparing it to Windows' behaviour is not going to win you any positive points with me. :)
> This is a feature that sysadmins have been asking for.
As a sysadmin this breaks my own daily workflow. I have 400 VMs that are treated as pets and I probably screen sessions on at least a third of them. (I have another 500 that are cattle-like.)
> And they’re not breaking any POSIX behavior. Nowhere does it say when the system isn’t allowed to kill a process.
Aka, malicious compliance. See also: nowhere does it say that the US President cannot fire the FBI Director. Also: nowhere does it say that the US Senate has to hold hearings when a US President nominates a judge for the US Supreme Court.