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This is a great example of an edge case which many people might never need but is really useful in a pinch: that’s what provides the equivalent of the Mac targe
by acdha 3y ago
This is a great example of an edge case which many people might never need but is really useful in a pinch: that’s what provides the equivalent of the Mac target disk mode, which is really handy if you need to repair a no longer-bootable system.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1761066b135f1a322c446f102343ea4aa61fe3ee https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1761066b135f1a322c...
- yencabulator 3y agoThat's really not a great argument for why it belongs in systemd. Kitchen sinks are generally useful, but 17 kitchen sinks in a helicopter is not a good idea.
- acdha 3y agoWhere would you put it instead of something started by pid 1? It needs to boot the kernel and unlike macOS they have to run on a ton of different architectures so they can’t count on the firmware.
- yencabulator 3y agoHuh? It's just another userspace program serving TCP.