Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com>:
> On 12/06/2016 03:29 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Another thing is that, as stated before, the runlevel business is
>> legacy. It is still supported by systemd-update-utmp, but for how
>> long is anybody's guess.
>
> System V compatibility is still important to Linux, and as long as it
> is, something resembling a runlevel has to be provided, even it's just
> an abstraction of something else like a systemd target. So any system
> that advertises System V compliance or compatibility will have a
> runlevel.
I wonder if Linux still suffers from this local DoS:
[ Now no-one else can log in ]
This is a problem with advisory locking. The fact that anyone can
create an exclusive lock on a file they can only read! Is this
behavior appropriate?
<URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-security/1996-Novembe
r/msg00026.html>
Didn't try it, but the utmp API seems hopeless in this regard.
Marko
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