Re: [RFC v1 00/14] Bus1 Kernel Message Bus

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 09:11:33 EST


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:17 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This proposal introduces bus1.ko, a kernel messaging bus. This is not a request
> for inclusion, yet. It is rather an initial draft and a Request For Comments.
>
> While bus1 emerged out of the kdbus project, bus1 was started from scratch and
> the concepts have little in common. In a nutshell, bus1 provides a
> capability-based IPC system, similar in nature to Android Binder, Cap'n Proto,
> and seL4. The module is completely generic and does neither require nor mandate
> a user-space counter-part.

One thing which is not so clear to me is the role of bus1 wrt. containers.
Can a container A exchange messages with a container B?
If not, where is the boundary? I guess it is the pid namespace.

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Thanks,
//richard