What exactly is the point here??

Posted Jan 15, 2018 17:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: What exactly is the point here?? by HelloWorld
Parent article: Varlink: a protocol for IPC

systemd often runs in the initramfs as well. I'm just wondering why having the daemon serialize under it would be such a problem (I mean, it does much the same thing to get out from under the initramfs libc's purview).

What exactly is the point here??

Posted Jan 15, 2018 18:15 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

It will always be fragile with various races during handover. It'd be much better if DBUS supported reconnection internally in the protocol...

What exactly is the point here??

Posted Jan 15, 2018 21:57 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Why should there be any races during handover? it doesn't use threads AFAIK.
Everything else can be ignored until the new daemon has read the serialized state and takes over.