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Your English is difficult to parse even when you aren't upset; I really don't see why you have an emotional response to people pointing out errors and flaws in systemd. Are you married to it or something?
In any event, there are things called unit tests and code coverage metrics that are used in professional software development environments to catch such issues before they hit the field. I'll point out that the RedHat team that writes systemd is supposed to consist of software professionals (they are paid to write that stuff, aren't they?).
We can also talk about use cases and other ways to ensure that you've covered the various possibilities.
What I find astonishing about this particular bug was that it was triggered by the most obvious edge case of them all: empty input. I'll also add that since it was non-deterministic how many times that you had to write the empty input to provoke the failure, then there is an implication of some deeper issue with the handling of data between and during requests (normally around thread access of some shared data structure).
I've been writing software since 1976 and have been paid to do it since 1995. An error like this would be easy to imagine making it to the field in the 1980's. The world of software practices and testing have come a long way since then.
of course you would make everything better. stupid Redhat that they did not have employed you.
and btw, the only thing I see emotional is that once again, the in-official official Slackware forum starts to look a bit strange.
what has this topic to do in the Slackware forum? why not in linux general, or redhat?
just that people like you can say how they make everything better? uninteresting, where is code from you available to see?
lets talk about this, and does it has to do anything with Slackware, at least develop on Slackware?
no?
every poops from the debian, or from some other anti systemd forum becomes a mirror here, explaining things via copy and past the messages from there.
Where is the relation to Slackware, are Slackware users so poor with their distribution that they have no other interesting topics? Talking about software they have not even installed, repeating things via copy and past they hardly understand them self?
I would vote for banning from this forum all such systemd threads that are not related to implementations details on Slackware like for some of the gnome implementations.
I think it would make this place a better place, and imho is linux general the right place for topics like that.
ok, what about: you made a somehow for some funny comment but it was provable not the truth.
is this better?
thanks for the English election, as a non native English speaker I appreciate help with the English language
I don't see how his statement wasn't the truth. He said this issue isn't our problem, which, right now, it isn't. It won't be our problem until/unless Pat decides to add systemd to Slackware, but at that point, this specific bug is likely to be long gone.
ok, what about: you made a somehow for some funny comment but it was provable not the truth.
is this better?
thanks for the English election, as a non native English speaker I appreciate help with the English language
"Lie" indicates that the person making the statement knew that they were stating something that was not the case.
That is different from being incorrect or wrong, which does not indicate that someone is dishonest.
A github commit today does not magically remove the broken instances already deployed in the field, so I don't think that you proved anything about the bug not existing at all.
This thread has become exactly what I did not want; another argue-fest with @a4z about systemd.
Systemd doesn't love you @a4z; just give it up. It will never call you.
of course you would make everything better. stupid Redhat that they did not have employed you.
and btw, the only thing I see emotional is that once again, the in-official official Slackware forum starts to look a bit strange.
what has this topic to do in the Slackware forum? why not in linux general, or redhat?
just that people like you can say how they make everything better? uninteresting, where is code from you available to see?
lets talk about this, and does it has to do anything with Slackware, at least develop on Slackware?
no?
every poops from the debian, or from some other anti systemd forum becomes a mirror here, explaining things via copy and past the messages from there.
Where is the relation to Slackware, are Slackware users so poor with their distribution that they have no other interesting topics? Talking about software they have not even installed, repeating things via copy and past they hardly understand them self?
I would vote for banning from this forum all such systemd threads that are not related to implementations details on Slackware like for some of the gnome implementations.
I think it would make this place a better place, and imho is linux general the right place for topics like that.
I think it would be a better place without your comments, but that isn't my decision to make. You have a pretty high rep, so I assume that you can be occasionally sane and helpful. Just not in systemd threads.
My intent in stating
Quote:
Oh well. Not our problem.
was to prevent this thread from becoming the standard bleep-storm that you always appear to create when systemd is mentioned.
I'm not sure what this has to do with Slackware at the present moment. If Slackware ever goes systemd a couple of decades from now I hope all severe bugs are worked out by then. I'm curious what Google will use with Fuchsia and Magenta (the linux killer?).
I'm also not sure why there is a heated argument regarding systemd's efficacy? If half of the internet goes down we will know systemd has a problem.
It's not a Slackware are problem because luckily, Slackware avoided the problem preemptively. It's about the fact of practices have not changed regarding how the developers attitudes and treatment of the project.
I wouldn't be surprised if eudev and elogind haven't found bugs from their extracted code that they themselves fixed.
It's not a Slackware are problem because luckily, Slackware avoided the problem preemptively. It's about the fact of practices have not changed regarding how the developers attitudes and treatment of the project.
I wouldn't be surprised if eudev and elogind haven't found bugs from their extracted code that they themselves fixed.
Well, its not a present Slackware problem is what I meant. Slackware doesn't need to run systemd for it to cause Slackware problems in the future with its dependencies.
Everything has bugs. I'm sure they have found some in those projects. The systemd developers are making an integrated system. Its their goal.
The systemd developers are making an integrated system. Its their goal.
Well, RedHat has certain goals with systemd.
Those goals may not adequately support non-enterprise environments. I'm not claiming that RedHat is sabotaging desktop environments or anything like that; RedHat's money is in enterprise server pools and that's their focus.
I think it would be a better place without your comments, but that isn't my decision to make. You have a pretty high rep, so I assume that you can be occasionally sane and helpful. Just not in systemd threads.
My intent in stating was to prevent this thread from becoming the standard bleep-storm that you always appear to create when systemd is mentioned.
Fact: I do not start this stupid threads here that give Slackware users a chance to show the world how ignorant and technical unskilled they are.
Fact: you do comment those threads as much as I do, as several others do, but since they fit in your world view it is ok, right?
So address what you say to your self and some other prominent participants,
Fact: in contrast to several others, as you can read in the meanwhile year of history to this topic, at least I do not spread FUD, lies and technical bullshit.(Fact)
But I agree with you on one think, it is actual better to do take some break from this place, since it is obvious that some super Slackers like you have noting to say to technical stuff anyway and therefore are focused on spreading the sect like believes, mobbing everyone who does not agree..
and sorry when I misunderstood you 'not our problem' statement, I thought you address others with this statement and continue to repeat some lies about bug ignoring from some developers, as has been brought over and over in such threads as you can read in the history, also a fact.
But in contrast to others, I can learn when I understand or do something wrong.
Slackware, the place with users unable to boot into a different runlevel when they have to work with a different distribution not hesitate to shout this out into the world (just an other fact in context of systemd if you remember;-)
Ok , this was bad, but should show you why I would like such systemd or simmilar threads to dissipater out of the Slackwaerforum in to the Linux general section, where I btw never comment such threads, just an other fact.
But I guess, as for al sect members, all these facts are possible to many facts for you and will trigger just an other backfire effect.
So systemd wants to duplicate a webmin-like interface? No thank you. That's like giving sshd complete access to the root system without a password stopgap.
So systemd wants to duplicate a webmin-like interface? No thank you. That's like giving sshd complete access to the root system without a password stopgap.
My thoughts exactly when I saw that!
That is, how shall I put it... INSANE!
But they are trying to build a single-application-as-an-operating-system, so I guess it will need a web server, email server (won't that be fun), editors, sensors and probably even a few games...
But as someone has already observed, it isn't our problem...
Slackware doesn't need to run systemd for it to cause Slackware problems in the future with its dependencies.
systemd is much more than an init and much more monolithic, so it's just inevitable. It doesn't mean that someone can't just fork the project in question and effectively remove the dependency on systemd. There needs to be a real will to do that however.
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Originally Posted by a4z
Fact: I do not start this stupid threads here that give Slackware users a chance to show the world how ignorant and technical unskilled they are.
Fact: you do comment those threads as much as I do, as several others do, but since they fit in your world view it is ok, right?
So address what you say to your self and some other prominent participants,
Fact: in contrast to several others, as you can read in the meanwhile year of history to this topic, at least I do not spread FUD, lies and technical bullshit.(Fact)
But I agree with you on one think, it is actual better to do take some break from this place, since it is obvious that some super Slackers like you have noting to say to technical stuff anyway and therefore are focused on spreading the sect like believes, mobbing everyone who does not agree..
and sorry when I misunderstood you 'not our problem' statement, I thought you address others with this statement and continue to repeat some lies about bug ignoring from some developers, as has been brought over and over in such threads as you can read in the history, also a fact.
But in contrast to others, I can learn when I understand or do something wrong.
Slackware, the place with users unable to boot into a different runlevel when they have to work with a different distribution not hesitate to shout this out into the world (just an other fact in context of systemd if you remember;-)
Ok , this was bad, but should show you why I would like such systemd or simmilar threads to dissipater out of the Slackwaerforum in to the Linux general section, where I btw never comment such threads, just an other fact.
But I guess, as for al sect members, all these facts are possible to many facts for you and will trigger just an other backfire effect.
You have serious problems you should look into getting helped with. You calling the users of a distribution(s) as those in a "sect" should have been a sign even to yourself.
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