[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v39

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:11, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at medozas.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2012-01-25 02:02, Lennart Poettering wrote:

>>[v39]
>>* If a group "adm" exists, journal files are automatically
>>  owned by them
>
> This sounds like it has the potential that journal files suddenly
> beomce writable by a random user group that has existed previously.

The group 'adm' isn't random, is it? It's pretty commonly used for
'system monitoring' users.

>>* Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
>>  final shut-down killing spree
>
> Did you consider
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-January/004221.html ?

How? We do not and can not use pivot_root() during bootup.

Kay