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posted by cmn32480 on Monday April 17 2017, @08:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the people-that-live-in-a-bubble dept.

Edit: The link.

There were lots of good titles for this submission, as in "Breaking news: Poettering clueless?" to finally disprove Betteridge's law, or "systemd surprisingly not as good as advertised" or "Breaking new: systemd broken" or "Poettering censors critics after epic fail".

Systemd implementation of "rm -rf .*" will follow ".." to upper directory and erase /

How to reproduce:
        # mkdir -p /foo/dir{1,2}

        # touch /foo/.bar{1,2}

        # cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/test.conf

        R! /foo/.* - - - - -

        Reboot.

After the issue was fixed, finally Poettering added this gem of wisdom:

I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?

The answer to this question, as many clarified for him, obviously is a loud "NO!". After being told a couple of times in no uncertain terms, the thread was closed for non-developers

poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators 4 hours ago

for which I proposed the "freedom-of-speech" department (although I admit it is a weak proposal).


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DECbot on Monday April 17 2017, @09:55PM (4 children)

    by DECbot (832) on Monday April 17 2017, @09:55PM (#495539) Journal

    I keep hoping that he'll move over to Gnome3, so I have more justifications to ignore Gnome and justify my boycott, but, I'd settle for him moving on to Firefox. Though, the HTML5 or HTTP 2.0 or Wayland or whatever he proposes to replace ssh would make more sense as a career move since those aren't completely borked yet.

    Maybe Linux needs a universal graphics, hard drive/RAID, and WiFi driver... You know, kind of like ZFS + OpenGL + graphics drivers + WiFi + network management--but the network manager must be incompatible with whatever comes with systemd. Hmm... it should probably come with something akin to ssh support too.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @10:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @10:23PM (#495565)

    Maybe Linux needs a universal graphics, hard drive/RAID, and WiFi driver... You know, kind of like ZFS + OpenGL + graphics drivers + WiFi + network management--but the network manager must be incompatible with whatever comes with systemd. Hmm... it should probably come with something akin to ssh support too.

    Yes! And we can call it alphabetd.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:03AM (#495610)

    don't forget: Ability to read email ! :)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:18PM (#495853)

    He pretty much already work for Gnome.

    Heck, thats how it all started. By him trying to "fix" the audio on his Gnome desktop install.

    That lead us to Pulseaudio...