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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 4 de February de 2011 09:32:36 Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> I (maybe vaguely) explained that in my blog post [0].
> It would be lock free. The tables could only grow, and deleted records
> would  just be marked for deletion and never reused. When the daemon thinks
> it's time to compact the table, it would create a new one with the
> compacted data, write its handle on a well-defined offset on the current
> table and finally flag the current table as deleted.

I like the idea, but I'd like to see a proof of concept first. I still have 
some doubts if this would work.

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