Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se...
by throw0101b on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @06:38PM
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> logging in binary was a mistake.
They could have at least not re-invented the wheel: perhaps use SQLite (or OpenLDAP's LMDB) instead of DIYing it.
> The gory story begins with their journald discussion, here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/69... where they rationalize why they created their own data structure rather than using an existing embedded DB. Aside from their claim that nothing suitable existed being wrong (LMDB belies those claims) the fact is the solution they developed is inherently unreliable https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64116 which utterly invalidates their claimed attention to robustness.
They could have at least not re-invented the wheel: perhaps use SQLite (or OpenLDAP's LMDB) instead of DIYing it.
> The gory story begins with their journald discussion, here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/69... where they rationalize why they created their own data structure rather than using an existing embedded DB. Aside from their claim that nothing suitable existed being wrong (LMDB belies those claims) the fact is the solution they developed is inherently unreliable https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64116 which utterly invalidates their claimed attention to robustness.
* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924071300-170035-why-you...