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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".
(Score: 2) by psa on Monday June 24 2024, @08:14PM
I, too, was a VMS admin (and I do miss auto-versioned files). And I remember the sudden death of the OS. Switching to unix administration was a big deal, because they were the "enemy." But NT was a joke. I never expected it to gain such traction.
Anyway, I've seen major OSes die. I'm hopeful BSD can keep unix alive, but I think it will be harder as more and more OS-level utils are no longer possible on linux, shrinking the ecosystem. Whatever linux becomes when freedesktop.org gets done with it, it doesn't look like it's going to be unix anymore. And I don't see any other salvation in System V.