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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] systemd
From:       Anton Aylward <opensuse () antonaylward ! com>
Date:       2017-07-16 1:54:55
Message-ID: 5366660c-f24d-45e9-0a11-db472f5b486e () antonaylward ! com
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On 15/07/17 01:52 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:
>  And it's not portable to the BSDs(which some think is a good
> thing).

When it comes down to it, there are a lot of features that Linux has, supported
from the kernel all the way down, that don't exist, even in some analogous form
of functionality, in BSD.  Systemd makes use of these, so of course it isn't
portable to BSD, or for that matter, any other vendor version of UNIX, that
doesn't have them all.

I suppose a conditional compile might get around this, but lacing code with a
plethora of #IFDEF statements makes it a difficult to read and therefore
difficult to understand and maintain.

Whether or not its a good thing that BSD doesn't have systemd is beside the
point if you need certain kernel functionality that BSD doesn't supply, if your
application level depends on it.  Any such application, never mind systemd, is
not portable to BSD.

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