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Re: systemd-fsck?



previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed:

> > Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD
> > Unices?
> >   
> No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check
> what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs), sudo)
> 

I can tell you that not all systems (pclinux os and others) have sudo
though I think they should and why should people know or re-learn how
to use sudo for that. The only portable and intuitive thing almost
guaranteed to be available is su, atleast it was.

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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
universal interface'

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In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd
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