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this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel

this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel

Posted Feb 9, 2013 18:55 UTC (Sat) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel by Cyberax
Parent article: Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

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,
Wol


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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...

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