[ale] One for systemd haters

[James Taylor]

Same here. I checked on my openSUSE Leap 15 and SLES15 systems. No files
starting with -
IS there some special case where it is used?
-jt

 

James Taylor
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>>> Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> 10/9/2018 10:50 AM >>> 
????? That is not what I see in my /usr/lib/systemd/system dir.
There's
exactly 0 files whose name begins with a '-'. That would be beyond
dumb. I suspect a faulty distro implementation.
Checked on Fedora 28 and CentOS 7.5. No -name files.


On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 14:38 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> I just ran across this issue.   (Not asking for help since the link
> solved it – just venting.)
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https://serverfault.com/questions/844584/why-grep-doesnt-work-in-the-usr-lib-systemd-system-directory
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> What mentally deficient cretin in the Systemd development world
> decided naming a file with a “-“ as first character was a good
> idea?  
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> This is right up there with Oracle long ago deciding to name things
> “core” while ignoring the fact most people had cron jobs to find
and
> delete core dump files on a regular basis.
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> P.S.  I still generally like Systemd but this filename is a fairly
> stupid thing to do.
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