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this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernelthis isn't moving D-Bus into the kernelPosted Feb 9, 2013 8:42 UTC (Sat) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel by wblew Parent article: Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel
Does that mean d-bus will work properly over a network?
I understood that at the moment d-bus doesn't work well if you try to run the program on one system and the display on another. It'd be nice if remoting did work well, as I use an old system as an x-term and at present it's painful ...
Cheers,
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this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 16:10 UTC (Sat) by hitmark (guest, #34609) [Link]
Welcome to the world that have not been thinking of network as more than HTML/FTP/SSH servers and clients in over a decade. The only places to come close to "network as a computer" is in old SUN ads and clusters (and perhaps Plan9, but mention that without context and most will think movie not OS).
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 18:37 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
No. DBUS is a local IPC, it's explicitly NOT targeted for networked IPC. For example, DBUS allows to send file descriptors and credentials with the messages.
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 18:55 UTC (Sat) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
YUCK!!!
So it most definitely isn't unixy!!!
Hopefully X over Wayland, or Wayland over X, will fix it, but it would be nice if it let you run programs properly over the network.
Cheers,
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 19:16 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Well there are lots of IPC that doesn't work over networks. Like 'Shared Memory Segments', 'Semaphore Arrays', and 'Message Queues'. I don't know if you consider those 'unixy' or not, but they certainly have been around in Unix for a long time.
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 10, 2013 7:14 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]
And OMG, pthread condvars are not file descriptors!
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 10, 2013 0:03 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Next you'll say that UNIX sockets are not UNIX enough for you...
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 19:34 UTC (Sat) by guelfey (guest, #89259) [Link]
The spec allows a tcp transport (http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#t...), even if I assume nobody uses it because it's not secure at all.
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 19:39 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
things like this makes me wish that ipsec actually worked well. Transport mode for the win.
this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel Posted Feb 9, 2013 21:40 UTC (Sat) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]
It might not work well, yet it sort of works somehow.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=359864
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