Re: quote interpretation via vars without eval

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

very many is my guess too
since i learnt off experience, people dont know why and to update their
systems

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 9:09 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 04:55:25PM -0300, Marco Ippolito wrote:
> > Interestingly, I checked and Debian Jessie (currently oldoldstable) uses
> > package coreutils_8.23-4 which does have a < 2016 ls.
> >
> > Now, Long Term Support ended for it (i.e. voluntary security support for
> it
> > beyond oldstable) in mid 2020 so maybe a system with such an old
> coreutils
> > installation, likely not getting any security updates unless they are
> > applied in-house or through an interest group, perhaps has a bigger
> problem,
> > but I'd be curious to know how many production systems out there are kept
> > this backwards.
>
> Obviously you can never get a reliable count, but I'd imagine "quite a
> lot".  Remember, CentOS/RHEL has an even longer support cycle, and a lot
> of systems are kept running past EOL, especially if they're not on the
> public Internet.
>
>