Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 29 novembre 2013 à 17:55 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : Indeed, systemd has not been written with security in mind. Obviously, such a subjective judgment of valor does not mean the same to me as to other developers. It is easy to quote it out of context and say “oh, look! some

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question) [and 1 more messages]

2013-11-30 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ian, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: My point was that someone who is writing an init system for concurrent startup and dynamic service management needs to have a good understanding of concurrent system design, and in particular of race hazards. I wouldn't expect a

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-11-30 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:07:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: All distributions care about not having security issues in their code, but that's not the same thing as actually doing the work to audit the code. In practice this only happens when dedicated resources are turned on the code in

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs (was: init system question)

2013-11-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 04:07:17PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: [EOD from me due to a lack of time, but that needed to be said] And thank you for saying it. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,