Hi All, What about answering the basic question?
1) What is an OS's init system? Reply: Hmm.... let me think. An init system is.... EVERYTHING! 2) What is sysvinit not a good OS init system? Reply: Well... new is often better. 3) Why do you use assert() so much in your C coding? Reply: Well... testing for the return value of functions like malloc, etc and verifying array items are valid make the code cumbersome to read and difficult to write. On 08/06/2016, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think this joke could be refined, but it's a pretty good start. > > You know, given the fact that systemd's architecture is an April Fools > joke, it's amazing how little systemd humor exists. > > SteveT > > =================================================== > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 22:19:49 -0700 > From: Kyle Terrien <kyleterr...@gmail.com> > To: Orange County Linux Users Group <oc...@mailman.oclug.org> > Subject: [OCLUG] Some programming humor > > > How many Lennart Poetterings does it take to change a light bulb? > > Just one. He simply runs > > # systemctl restart lights.service > > And then a bunch of maintenance workers run out and replace all the > light bulbs at once. > > However, every now and then the maintenance workers walk into each > other, drop the lightbulbs, and none of the lightbulbs get replaced. > > (Concurrency and parallelism are hard, but when you get them right, you > can do some interesting things. If you don't get them right, you get > some interesting race conditions.) > > --Kyle > > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
