Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:15:51PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> (reply 1/2 -- I'm replying twice to keep the threading sane)
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > kdbus is a kernel-level IPC implementation that aims for resemblance to
> > the the protocol layer with the existing userspace D-Bus daemon while
> > enabling some features that couldn't be implemented before in userspace.
> >
> 
> >  * Support for multiple domains, completely separated from each other,
> >    allowing multiple virtualized instances to be used at the same time.
> 
> Given that there is no such thing as a device namespace, how does this work?

See the document for the details.

> The docs seem a bit confusing to me as to whether there's a hierarchy
> of domains.  Do domains have a concept of a parent?

Yes.

> What's "container-name"?

Is that used in the documentation?

> Given that domains have random IDs, how can they be checkpointed and restored?

Good question, I don't know about checkpoint/restore, but I think that
has been done.  Daniel would know more than I do about that.

thanks,

greg k-h