thoughts(?) on interconnecting dbus on 2 systems to get anything useful...

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Jun 20 23:56:48 UTC 2017


On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 15:06:19 PDT L A Walsh wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 12:17:20 PDT L A Walsh wrote:
> >> What speed requirements are needed for file descriptor
> >> passing, or, what speeds is it getting?
> > 
> > Instantaneous. You need the same kernel for that to work.
> 
> ----
>     No processor processes speeds that fast.  

Yes, it is. The file descriptor must already be open by the time it can be 
transmitted via Unix socket. So the time to get the data is zero: the file 
descriptor is *already* open.

I didn't mean the time to read the file data from disk. I meant the time for 
opening the file (it's already open).

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center



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