Concepting a new IPC (was Re: "DBus Embedded" - a clean break)

Lennart Poettering mzqohf at 0pointer.de
Thu Feb 3 13:28:14 PST 2011


On Mon, 31.01.11 22:16, Alberto Mardegan (mardy at users.sourceforge.net) wrote:

> - making the D-Bus daemon create and maintain the shared memory
> objects with the list of registered service names and match rules;
> then implement direct p2p message passing, via sockets only

How to you plan to make the SHM stuff safe? Lock-free? If not lock-free,
how do you plan to ensure that arbitrary clients are unable to lock up
the entire system by taking a lock and never giving it up?

Lennart

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