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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:26:42 -0800

> Why adding an obscure set of IPC mechanism in network tree, and not
> using (maybe extending) traditional IPC (Messages queues, semaphores,
> Shared memory, pipes, futexes, ...).

I actually don't understand why there is so much resistence to using a
real bonafide on-the-wire protocol, and that way if you ever wanted to
connect dbus instances on multiple machines or log dbus transactions
remotely for debugging, you could just do it.