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1711.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
I think it's important to have a standard API going forward rather than porting to ten different APIs. We'd be more than happy to support OpenRC if you implemented the logind APIs we require.
1712.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
These are Adobe's concerns, not mine. I don't work for Adobe, but I'm familiar with Flash and have talked to Adobe engineers before. And it's not an easy call to make: keep in mind how many computers have Flash installed
1713.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
Adobe actually wants to open-source Flash, but they're concerned about the security impact. The source would make it a lot easier to find a 0day and infect somebody's computer. They actually have trusted customers that they share
1714.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
NVIDIA's kernel module right now just pokes a hole the size of a truck and reams data in from userspace. Valve is looking at using Wayland to power Steam, which means that NVIDIA basically need a proper DRM/KMS part in the kernel,
1715.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
The Windows driver and Linux driver are based on the same codebase, and NVidia is (rightly so) afraid of security issues in their drivers that could allow somebody to hack somebody's computer remotely with a special TF2 map or somebody
1716.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
Their initial comments for why Wayland didn't suit their purposes were misguided and incorrect, and Wayland supported all of the features they said it wouldn't. Ignorance isn't really FUD, but both their incorrect comments an
1717.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
> "GNU/Linux" is the OS, "Linux" is just the kernel. It's great we're talking about the kernel codebase then!
1718.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
I don't know why you think "service" is a word that systemd got from Windows. The name "service" actually came from the usage of the "service" script to run initscripts, like "sudo service httpd start
1719.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
systemd has one purpose: to be about system and service management. It will replace everything that deals with services: starting them (whether based on traditional init, scheduling, socket activation, or from a desktop user session), loggi
1720.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
What about it? If my CGI scripts are Python scripts, how do I kill the CGI processes that Apache launched without killing any that lighttpd launched, or some silly script I wrote to monitor something else?
1721.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
That's part of what the systemd journal provides, yes.
1722.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
First of all, systemd does not depend on anything relating to how /usr is mounted. Other components don't work properly with it; it simply detects the case and sends a warning. systemd itself will continue to work fine, but compon
1723.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
Usually when you kill a service, it's because it's not working properly. If a service is in a broken state, it's not the job of the service to try and cleanly shut itself down; it's the job of the service manager.
1724.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
I don't know why you think cgroups has anything to do with the /usr split. systemd uses cgroups to tag processes with metadata about services, and to provide resource limits. If you added a stub cgroups, then resource limits would
1725.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
Process and service management is not a simple problem space, especially with POSIX semantics. Try doing something like "stop apache". It turns out that trying to simply kill the Apache processes isn't going to work right, as
1726.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
As the article mentions, systemd has a full sysv init script compatibility mode, with some (trivial) incompatibilities: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibi...
1727.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
/usr should be mounted at the start since there's various things that are necessary during bootup, like udev rules. See http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is... for a more com
1728.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
With hindsight, yes, we'd love to do things differently. Saying "you should have done" doesn't really help the current situation here. The gsettings port broke stuff and reintroduced problems. It was long overdue. This means that cutting fe
1729.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
We'd love to do that, but sometimes it doesn't work that way. If you restart the compositor, in order to not crash, you need to unmap and remap your window with a different visual. So the code needs to be there anywhere if your compositor W
1730.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
I didn't think that through 100%. You're absolutely right.
1731.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
The old code didn't work after the port to GSettings. It crashed in weird places. That's why it was "#if 0"'d around in the GSettings port commit. As I said, the original intention was to fix it, but minds were changed.
1732.
by Jasper_ 13y ago
I'm that friend. I said to Jonanin: "If you want to know exactly, it's a lot of very, very tricky code that's easy to get wrong, hard to get right, and even when it looks like it's working, there's a large perf cost if it's not 100% right."