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systemd 256.1: Now Slightly Less Likely to Delete /home

posted by hubie on Saturday June 22 2024, @10:05PM   Printer-friendly

owl writes:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wipe_fix/

Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory. That's a feature.

The 256.1 release is now out, containing some 38 minor changes and bugfixes. Among these are some changes to the help text around the systemd-tmpfiles command, which describes itself as a tool to "Create, delete, and clean up files and directories." Red Hat's RHEL documentation describes it as a tool for managing and cleaning up your temporary files.

That sounds innocuous enough, right?

It isn't, as Github user jedenastka discovered on Friday. He filed bug #33349 and the description makes for harrowing reading, not just because of the tool's entirely intended behavior, but also because of the systemd maintainers' response, which could be summarized as "you're doing it wrong".

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2024, @04:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2024, @04:28PM (#1361701)

    I just can't get over how dumb the name is--it's doubly redundant. "PCLinuxOS"...everybody knows Linux is an OS, and it being on PC is the main use case; why do you need to state it outright? Now you're left with a name that is breathtakingly generic, and if you get rid of all the redundancy reduces to "Linux". It doesn't even contain any unique info in the name at all :P

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday June 24 2024, @01:43PM

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday June 24 2024, @01:43PM (#1361812) Homepage

    Agreed, it's a bloody silly name, but.... no worse than the weird and irrelevant names that so many linux things get tagged with. At least it's obvious what it is, no guesswork or lookups required. And that was kinda the point, I think.

    --
    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday June 25 2024, @01:17PM (1 child)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 25 2024, @01:17PM (#1361922)

    ...everybody knows Linux is an OS,

    No, no, no...
    Linux is just a kernel, it is GNU/Linux. Stallman would turn over in his grave. Ducks....

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 26 2024, @04:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 26 2024, @04:54AM (#1362042)

      Let's just admit that the ship has sailed on that at some point in the last 33 years.