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systemd can limit its own output and say "my bad"[This happened]

Did it? I didn't find any such commit. IMHO it's the correct fix. /dev/kmsg is privileged and systemd should rate-limit what it writes there after giving priority to more critical messages.

I guess I phrased it wrong, I was referring to the bug fix that stopped systemd from all of the spam and not internal rate limiting.

Okay, I think 6a0f1f6d5af7c7300d3db7a0ba2b068f8abd222b "sd-event: rework API to support CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM, too" removed the dual_timestamp_is_set assert. It looks like it was fixed by accident, and there's zero acknowledgement that flooding /dev/kmsg could be a problem on systemd's side.

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