bus limits

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Sun Aug 15 10:20:22 PDT 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 12:48, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Ok, the way I 'solved' this was to reconsider whether it's appropriate
> at all to use D-BUS for the purpose of the point-to-point communication
> that is sending messages from a hotplug helper spawned by the kernel to
> a daemon. 
> 
> It pretty much isn't; it's private communication between two components
> of the same software package (in this case hal), that's not entirely
> what D-BUS is for

I do think this is a reasonable use of D-BUS, though I understand if
you'd rather do something simple than try to answer the larger question
about D-BUS limits behavior ;-)

Havoc




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