Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist

Al Viro
2014-10-27T16:22:25Z

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:09:06PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> > > By having a well-known protocol and defined semantics on top of that
> > > communication channel. I could try and re-explain why kdbus is needed,
> > > but I wouldn't do as good a job as the people working on it, so best to
> > > refer to the individual threads about kdbus on this list.
> > >
> >
> > I didn't do a good job asking the question, then.
> >
> > What's wrong with fds in the context of communicating with a
> > container? What does kdbus do container-wise that helps?
>
> Nothing's wrong with using fd's. They're just a very poor API.

For a proof by assertion it's too transparent, for any other kind of
explanation - far too short on details...