[Nottingham] systemd now puts "mount" into the magical "PID 1"

[Martin]

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Folks,

Where will this end?...

Note that in Linux, the "init" process "PID 1" is very 'special'...[*]


The latest for systemd is that the filesystem command "mount" is now
consumed into the systemd "PID 1" 'expansion'.

What could possibly go wrong?...

I for one do not believe for what I read as unbelievable gloss. What
is the 'sandboxing' in "PID 1"?... Or has systemd moved out of the
super-special "PID 1" state for all systems?

To my view, this is all rather reminiscent of the MCP[+] in the 1980's
film, TRON...


For a good giggle The Register style, see:

Systemd adds filesystem mount tool
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/systemd_adds_filesystem_mount_tool/

Note the first few comments there. Very apt!


What is the OS world coming to?!

All good fun for our next NLUG meet! :-)

Cheers,
Martin


*: For various views of systemd:

http://xkcd.com/743/


Systemd – What You Need to Know
https://www.maketecheasier.com/systemd-what-you-need-to-know-linux/

- - There is indeed a LOT of controversy...


What's wrong with systemd?
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3u2ahq/whats_wrong_with_systemd/


Comments on EWONTFIX: Broken by design: systemd
(Error - Won't fix)
https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2014/02/10/ewontfix-ecouldfix-systemd/

*The main issue here is that as systemd is PID 1, if it crashes* , the
system goes down. Before discussing how systemd could work as a non
PID 1 process, let’s review its duties...



(Slackware, Gentoo, PCLinuxOS, and Chrome OS, haven't adopted systemd.)

((Full disclosure: I run non-systemd systems! And not necessarily only
those currently listed :-P ))


+:

TRON: Master Control Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tron_characters#Master_Control_Program


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