On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote:

>  ❦  9 juin 2013 11:45 CEST, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> :
>
> > You do of course not have to agree.  This is my personal opinion only.
> > But I believe it is useful to read Jamie Zawinski's view on screensavers
> > and toolkit library dependencies, and try to figure out how that can be
> > relevant to systemd and external dependencies:
> > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
>
> systemd does not rely on a toolkit. So, most of the arguments listed by
> Jamie do not hold. I suppose that you are mostly worried by libdbus
> since other libraries are already used in other critical
> daemons.


Personally I would be more worried about libpam and it's ability to load
random pam modules into a memory, and we have a plenty of them.

$ apt-cache search "^libpam-" | wc -l
61

Do you have idea how would a buggy PAM module affect PID 1?

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>

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