On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is an exact analogy of saying "I believe seatbelts are evil, > because car crashes should not happen." > > Shouldn't, but do. Besides that, some drivers are incompetant. Just > like some daemon authors are incompetant. Saying incompetent daemons > shouldn't exist on Linux is exactly the same as saying incompetent > drivers shouldn't exist on the highway. They shouldn't, but they always > will. > This is a false analogy, a software crash is an inconvenience, an automobile crash is a life-threatening event - the two are not directly comparable. By your analogy, the car would automatically restart its engines, re-enable its cruise control, and get into another crash as rescue workers were still trying to help the victims! Given that a large portion of the crashes result from a security vulnerability, a daemon potentially does more damage by coming back up without the administrator's knowledge and consent. I'm not opposed to having the functionality to restart processes automatically, but I am opposed to having it be part of the init process to be there by default. The administrator should have to go out of their way to set a system up to restart daemons automatically.
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