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This is somewhat ironic, given that it was systemd that replaced the battle-tested systems that came before it, and variants of your comment were used to argue
by rmgk 2y ago
This is somewhat ironic, given that it was systemd that replaced the battle-tested systems that came before it, and variants of your comment were used to argue against it.
- jorvi 2y agoSysvinit was brittle as hell. It was bad at preventing races (hence no parallelization), in part because it couldn't give guarantees on which services had started when, and if they started at all. At this point Systemd its unit files are in a really nice place, to the point where Systemd can often guarantee correctness now.
- knowitnone 2y ago"can often guarantee correctness"? So you're saying it can not at times?
- Vilian 2y ago"Battle-tested systems"? Are you talking about those bash scripts that weren't reliable? lmaoo