Starting the kdbus discussions

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 30.12.13 15:52, Glenn Schmottlach (gschmottlach at gmail.com) wrote:

> > The existing userspace only works with systemd. Nothing stops others to
> > write an alternative userspace implementation for this though. I started
> > this discussion here to make sure we an get enough of this into the spec
> > so that those bus implementations stay interoperable enough for apps to
> > not care about the bus implementation used.
> >
> 
> So it sounds like systemd is not strictly a dependency if you plan on
> talking to kdbus directly. As I understand it the proxy "thingy" is
> the piece with the systemd dependency since it was written using some
> of the systemd APIs etc...

If a cient wants to talk directly to kdbus, it doesn't need systemd
stuff. The proxy, the "bus driver" service, the bus setup/policy and the
activation logic are implemented in systemd. But nothing of that is
something clients need to think about.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat