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But... but... it was in the documentation! /s
What killed me about the whole thing was how defensive the dev was about the whole thing, basically calling the reporter a moron for running a command without extensive knowledge of the entire system. I don't care how good the documentation is, if
open fileproceeds to format your hard drive in some circumstances, you done goofed as a dev.I agree his answer sucks, but perhaps the fault still lies with the distribution developers (who should know better), not the authors of systemd. In that context I can understand the resentment expressed by the dev. It's not directed toward the end user but toward the distro developers, who have implemented systemd in a broken and dangerous way.
That first response was awful, like fuck you man, maybe I should read the doc but maybe your software should be better designed if it handles my data like that. Jesus Christ...
Especially when "tmpfiles" is an existing term of art with a very specific meaning
Tbf, this is something that only some distros do. Those distros should be reprimanded for handling home directories with the tmpfiles system, not systemd.
What distros are those?
The only reason its still called tmpfiles is because of backwards compatibility