On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:18:30AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote >> >> Can you find one example of any situation where the linux kernel has >> ever required any specific implementation of anything in userspace as >> a matter of policy in its 23 year history? I'm sure you could find >> some examples of cases where there just happened to be one de-facto >> implementation of something, but even that might be tough with all the >> diversity in the linux world. > > It might not be an official official requirement, but if the upstream > gets rolled into systemd, then we depend on the "goodwill" of systemd > devs not to go and break anybody else's userspace implementation. > Lennart and "goodwill" do not belong in the same sentence. How's > systemd-shim working out for Debian?
Do you have any reason to think that it isn't working out? The systemd-shim and cgmanager developers have to play catch up but I'm using both on Debian and Ubuntu and they're OK.
