Re:Why pro-systemd and anti-systemd people will never get along
by anko on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @02:14AM
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Thank you, this is the most insightful comment I've read.
People like the whipupitude, because they know it. But nearly every init.d script I've read has bugs. There isn't a testing framework to ensure correctness and even if there were it would be needlessly complex because you'd spend a bunch of time mocking out the filesystem / the process table / whatever else init scripts do.
We know what initialising a process should look like and we should be stabilising this API so that we limit mistakes/bugs.
People like the whipupitude, because they know it. But nearly every init.d script I've read has bugs. There isn't a testing framework to ensure correctness and even if there were it would be needlessly complex because you'd spend a bunch of time mocking out the filesystem / the process table / whatever else init scripts do.
We know what initialising a process should look like and we should be stabilising this API so that we limit mistakes/bugs.