❦ 9 juin 2013 11:45 CEST, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> : > You do of course not have to agree. This is my personal opinion only. > But I believe it is useful to read Jamie Zawinski's view on screensavers > and toolkit library dependencies, and try to figure out how that can be > relevant to systemd and external dependencies: > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
systemd does not rely on a toolkit. So, most of the arguments listed by
Jamie do not hold. I suppose that you are mostly worried by libdbus
since other libraries are already used in other critical
daemons. However, note that:
- D-Bus is not a new project, it is now 10 years old
- security is a primary concern for dbus
- there are a lot of unit tests covering dbus code
- memory allocation failure is also tested and crashing on that is
considered as a bug
- systemd uses dbus to avoid to introduce a new (buggy) RPC mechanism
Moreover, I am not aware of critics against D-Bus code quality. The
coding practice is modern and seems safe.
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