On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 02:08:02PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 10:58:37 +0000 > hellekin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/03/2016 10:42 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > That said, I wonder, what information any > > > arbitrary init system would need, that can not be delivered e.g. in > > > a simple XML file, packaged with the daemon. > > > > An XML file, however simple it may be, is probably the last thing you > > want to add to an arbitrary init system. > > Also, i wasn't aware that XML is such a powerful trigger word
You'd need to go really, really far out of your way to design such an epic fail as XML. What it does is stringifying a simple tree data structure. Most of us here can design such a format that it's both human and machine readable, with a parser that fits in a single line of Perl. Enter XML. Definitely not human readable. Not (easily) machine readable either. And as to complexity... take a glance at https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libxml2 59! Fifty-fucking-nine security holes! In just a single implementation of such a format. You'd need to be really pants-on-the-head retarded to use XML anywhere near an init system. Especially in PID 1. Obviously, as you can expect, "someone" does this. In a standard-breaking, buggy way. -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
