On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Richard Yao <[email protected]> wrote: > The Linux kernel also supports far more architectures than we do. That does > not mean that we must support them too. > > With that said, how does changing things benefit/affect users, especially > non-systemd users?
Better support for namespaces, for one. If this is actually going to actually break something, by all means speak up. Otherwise this really comes across as the whole I-DONT-LIKE-CHANGE argument. I get it. By all means don't make your /etc/mtab a symlink, and if down the road something doesn't work as a result feel free to fork it unless you can convince somebody else to make it work. So far the only concrete issues that have been raised seem minor - pertaining to NFS and PAM (both having solutions available). If this causes trouble for the FreeBSD folks I'm interested in what kinds of compromises can be reached. I think a challenge is that Linux and FreeBSD seem to be very slowly diverging - for software that lives near the kernel/userspace boundary that could make things interesting. There doesn't seem to be much desire to limit Linux distros to purely POSIX behavior. Rich
