Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:47:47 -0700 | Subject | Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:28:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> Why is kdbus needed? > > Presumably because freedesktop crowd has made an architectural mistake and > pushed dbus as solution to all problems. And ran into limitations of > that, er, solution. Then, instead of perhaps reconsidering the wisdom of > their inspired decision, went for "let's push it kernelwards, it might > somewhat reduce the overhead and problems will be easier to chalk up to > something wrong being done by the kernel".
Well, yes, but the question I was actually trying to ask is: why does a containerized app need any kernel help at all for communication with the rest of the system (using dbus or anything else)? Passing socket fds into a container works just fine.
--Andy
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