The kdbuswreck [LWN.net]

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 23, 2015 1:01 UTC (Thu) by roskegg (subscriber, #105)
Parent article: The kdbuswreck

Wish they'd start over with the 9P protocol.

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Posted Apr 23, 2015 12:40 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link] (6 responses)

> Wish they'd start over with the 9P protocol.

As a new IPC system, maybe that's a good idea. As something which can accelerate all existing uses of D-Bus, it's 100% irrelevant.

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 23, 2015 18:56 UTC (Thu) by roskegg (subscriber, #105) [Link] (5 responses)

That is right. I'd like to see D-Bus phased out entirely and replaced with 9P.

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 23, 2015 20:06 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (1 responses)

…and a pony.

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 25, 2015 14:03 UTC (Sat) by jeff@uclinux.org (guest, #8024) [Link]

"Pony"

Except that an (admittedly application specific) 9P implementation is already in the kernel, it works very well, and is incredibly useful for the simplicity that it is.

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 24, 2015 10:54 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

An article comparing both would be highly interesting.

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 24, 2015 12:12 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

Good luck selling that idea to everyone who's using DBus now. We're looking forward to your libdbus clone that maps everything to 9P!

The kdbuswreck

Posted Apr 28, 2015 1:13 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Maybe 9P failed to learn the WebDAV lesson? If you design a protocol that can be used for everything, nobody will use it.