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On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:17:51 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote: |
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> > You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC |
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> > you already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light |
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> > daemon, can run system-wide or per-session and has the potential to |
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> > many of the IPC implementations you already have. Those are the ones |
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> > that don't happen to show up in ps so you hear very little whinging |
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> > about them. |
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> You might as well just use the existing IPC mechanisms too, |
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Yes, lets have lots of IPC mechanisms instead of one daemon that handles |
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IPC for everything. While we're at it, let's get rid of syslog and add |
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file logging code to every program that needs it. cron and at seem a bit |
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of a waste of space too. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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