Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error
Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically, is out, containing some 38 minor changes and bugfixes. Among these are some changes to the help text around theand the description makes for harrowing reading, not just because of the tool's entirely intended behavior, but also because of the systemd maintainers' response, which could be summarized as"you're doing it wrong".
So an option that is literally documented as saying"all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted", that you knew nothing about, sounded like a"good idea"? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand? Maybe don't just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh.No, it did not originate with systemd daddy Lennart"Agent P" Poettering. We do note, however, that Boccassi is Poettering's colleague at Microsoft… And we used the line not only for itsreference, but because it genuinely made us chuckle. In the delicate world of open source politics, though, perhaps a smidgen more diplomacy is sometimes needed.
It's a useful reminder to all concerned. We're all busy, and nobody has time to read the docs in full every time. Names matter, and the wider world probably won't notice when you change what a tool does if its name still refers to a now-obsolete definition. A small joke can ricochet around the world in the time that it takes one erroneous command to wipe all your data, which – thanks to SSDs – happens more quickly than ever. These tools are written and maintained by small teams of mere humans, and humans mess up occasionally. And if your command can potentially do something really dangerous, then don't let people just run it without warning them and checking.
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