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https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/tso-and-linus-and...

Yet just two days ago, we see Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux and maintainer of the Linux kernel), launching into a tirade against – yes, you guessed it – systemd developers because of their atrocious response to a bug in systemd that is crashing the kernel and preventing it from being debugged. Linus is so upset with systemd developer Kay Sievers (gee, where I have heard that name before – oh, that’s right, he’s the moron who refused to fix udev problems) that Linus is threatening to refuse any further contributions from this Red Hat developer, not just because of this bug, but because of a pattern of this behavior – a problem for Kay because Red Hat is also foaming at the mouth to have their kernel-based, no doubt bug- and security-flaw-ridden D-Bus implementation included in our kernels. Other developers were so peeved that they suggested simply triggering a kernel panic and halting the system when systemd is so much as detected in use.

The key phrase there is:

a bug in systemd that is crashing the kernel and preventing it from being debugged

Honestly though when you get Linus flaming your behavior you're doing something really wrong.



_Honestly though when you get Linus flaming your behavior you're doing something really wrong._

Haven't been around here long, have you? :-)


Likewise, of course, or you'd know that the tirades were more often than not in response to things that were indeed "really wrong" (at least by his standards).


Yeah I know Linus likes to go on a good tear. But I'm not talking about flaming your code or design decisions, but flaming your behavior.


from 2014. I'm only pointing it out to make it clear that the post wasn't recent. Not questioning anything else about it.




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