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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 19:16 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: this isn't moving D-Bus into the kernel by Wol
Parent article: Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

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.


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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!

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