Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

Bernd Petrovitsch
2015-04-22T01:53:54Z

Hi all!

On Die, 2015-04-21 at 09:37 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
[...]
> This has long been sort of the 'party line' and I've told many people
> this on the dbus mailing list over the years (almost exactly what you
> just said - that for performance-critical cases they should open a
> direct socket or use something else or whatever). Usually this makes
> app developers a little cranky because something that was going to be
> easy in their mind just got harder.

Perhaps these developers should rethink the design and protocols of
their apps - or pay the price for a stupid design which relies on heavy
IPC traffic (and usually - sooner or later - heavy network traffic).
Or - at least - deliver a (technical!) proof why this isn't feasible.

The case of "patching the kernel to lie about the kernel's command line"
just because some ill-designed user-space daemon misused it" was bad
enough and the above smells quite similarly.

Kind regards,
Bernd
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