Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
14 Apr 2003 17:45:54 -0400


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 17:24, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> 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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