dbus linked with libglib by default

[Ross Burton]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:15 +0300, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:23, ext frederic heem wrote:
> ...
> > Apart from the initial work to change all dbus function to their glib 
> > counterpart, there isn't any drawback at all. 
> 
> There is a drawback: out-of-memory (OOM) handling. The Glib library is
> inconvenient in an embedded environment when the RAM really runs out
> (and there is no swap to save you). As someone said, Glib typically
> calls abort() in OOM. And if D-Bus is used in a system-critical daemon,
> you don't want the daemon to call abort() -- you want to keep the daemon
> running.
> 
> So, using Glib in D-Bus is not a good idea until Glib allows the
> programmer to handle OOM.

"Typically" is the wrong word: all of the default allocators in GLib
abort on OOM.  g_alloc() and friends return a valid pointer, or don't
return.  This is *not* what DBus wants.

Ross
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