Re: systemd controversy

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:58:30 -0000 (UTC), Kevin Chadwick wrote:

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:29:50 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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Scripts need an interpreter. Being Turing-complete, in general
information cannot be extracted from them except by running them. Unit
files have a fixed vocabulary of keyword entries, which can be easily
enumerated, looked up, whatever. That’s what’s meant by “declarative”.

 
Sorry but that is nonsense. The code behind those unit files is a lot of
disparate C.

That’s purely down to how you choose to implement it--it has nothing to do
with the format--and meaning--of those unit files themselves. Nobody can
stop you from writing bad code to parse a good format.

In my experience init scripts are made entirely of simple commands that
are documented and editable, piece by piece.

sysvinit scripts are full of boilerplate sections that users regularly
copy and paste from one to the next, without thinking too much about what
they do.