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On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Larry McVoy wrote:

> "The new alternative does no such sleight of hand. Instead, it just gets the
> systemd daemon to run the command for you, using a special form of the existing
> systemd-run command."
>
> Sounds like a new path for exploits.  We'll see if Mr Systemd has to eat
> some crow in the future.  Said by a guy who _hates_ systemd.

systemd is the thing that should not be.

If I had successfully gotten my project up (trying to get a standalone
kernel/libc/clang build environment up and running - either Linux/musl or 
NetBSD) it would run a rewrite of the SysV init system (not "sysvinit", 
that's GPL).

-uso.