by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday August 29, 2015 @12:11PM (#50415997)
So systemd has ambition of being a container and VM management infrastucture (I have no idea how this should make sense for VMs though.)
machinectl shell looks to be designed to be some way to attach to a container environment with an interactive shell, without said container needing to do anything to provide such a way in. While they were at the task of doing that not too terribly unreasonable thing, they did the same function for what they call '.host', essentially meaning they can use the same syntax for current container context as guest contexts. A bit superfluous, but so trivial as not to raise any additional eyebrows (at least until Lennart did his usual thing and stated one of the most straightforward, least troublesome parts of UNIX is hopelessly broken and the world desperately needed his precious answer). In short, systemd can have their little 'su' so long as no one proposes removal of su or sudo or making them wrappers over the new and 'improved' systemd behavior.
Funnily enough, they used sudo in the article talking about how awesome an idea this is... I am amused.
Seems like a 'while they were at it' sort of thing (Score:2, Interesting)
So systemd has ambition of being a container and VM management infrastucture (I have no idea how this should make sense for VMs though.)
machinectl shell looks to be designed to be some way to attach to a container environment with an interactive shell, without said container needing to do anything to provide such a way in. While they were at the task of doing that not too terribly unreasonable thing, they did the same function for what they call '.host', essentially meaning they can use the same syntax for current container context as guest contexts. A bit superfluous, but so trivial as not to raise any additional eyebrows (at least until Lennart did his usual thing and stated one of the most straightforward, least troublesome parts of UNIX is hopelessly broken and the world desperately needed his precious answer). In short, systemd can have their little 'su' so long as no one proposes removal of su or sudo or making them wrappers over the new and 'improved' systemd behavior.
Funnily enough, they used sudo in the article talking about how awesome an idea this is... I am amused.