Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 13 Mar 2020 21:22:31 +0100

Am 12.03.20 um 13:06 schrieb Konrad, Martin:
>  In my opinion the zoo of traditional command-line tools isn't
> doing that much better, though.

YMMV, but IME it does /a lot/ better. The documentation of each fits on
a screen or two, and you can learn about each one as you go along. You
invoke them exactly if and when you have an actual need. Each has a
single dedicated purpose and it is easy to combine them and reason about
their interaction (if any). Their small code size means they are much
more easily reviewed for correctness and security. Their versatility
means they receive a lot more test coverage as people can and do use
them in a variety of situations.

> On top of that there is the usual
> question: which of these tools are still up-to-date/recommended?

This is just FUD. These utilities are all part of the standard
util-linux package and won't go away; some of them, like unshare, are
even quite new.

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System