> Personally, this is one reason why I'd much rather see a daemon-based model
> where each interested daemon can "subscribe" to the messages it is interested
> in. It's very possible (and likely, i.e. udev) that the steps involved for the
> daemon to respond to the hotplug event are so lightweight that creating a
> subprocess to handle them would be very wasteful.
This screams for d-bus.
I spent the weekend reading about it and I spoke with some of the d-bus
hackers.
It is really neat and certainly something we should look into.
See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
Robert Love
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