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Please explain how: a) systemd violates "the UNIX philosophy". b) "the UNIX philosophy" applies to long-running processes. UNIX daemons have existed for a lo
by microcolonel 10y ago
Please explain how:
a) systemd violates "the UNIX philosophy".
b) "the UNIX philosophy" applies to long-running processes.
UNIX daemons have existed for a long time, and they have never been as single-purposed as the shell utilities; so arguably "the UNIX philosophy" doesn't have anything to say about daemons. Secondly, systemd's PID1 has basically only as much functionality in it as makes sense. If they move that functionality to another daemon, it'll be worse.