Re: AF_BUS socket address family

From: Benjamin LaHaise
Date: Fri Jun 29 2012 - 20:13:52 EST


On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:42:30AM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> The current users are suffering from the issues outlined in my
> introductory mail all the time. These issues are caused by emulating an
> IPC system over AF_UNIX in userspace.

Nothing in your introductory statements indicate how your requirements
can't be met through a hybrid socket + shared memory solution. The IPC
facilities of the kernel are already quite rich, and sufficient for
building many kinds of complex systems. What's so different about DBus'
requirements?

-ben
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