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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1
    On 2015-04-29 14:54, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
    > On Apr 29, 2015 5:48 AM, "Harald Hoyer" <harald@redhat.com> wrote:
    >>
    >> * Being in the kernel closes a lot of races which can't be fixed with
    >> the current userspace solutions. For example, with kdbus, there is a
    >> way a client can disconnect from a bus, but do so only if no further
    >> messages present in its queue, which is crucial for implementing
    >> race-free "exit-on-idle" services
    >
    > This can be implemented in userspace.
    >
    > Client to dbus daemon: may I exit now?
    > Dbus daemon to client: yes (and no more messages) or no
    >
    Depending on how this is implemented, there would be a potential issue
    if a message arrived for the client after the daemon told it it could
    exit, but before it finished shutdown, in which case the message might
    get lost.

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