Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

Frank van Maarseveen (frankvm@xs4all.nl)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:17:48 +0200


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 05:45:54PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> 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/

This is way too complicated.

It's a message protocol that resembles XDR. The messages are also binary
instead of ASCII. Bah. If one would want to subscibe to a small selection
of events then the usual filesystem provides a much better concept. For
example, a /proc/kernel/event tree.

-- 
Frank
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