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On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:03 PM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
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> On 2011-09-17 20:36, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> They are standard in the sense that they are a low level communication |
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>> standard API. An IPC is *way* more than that; dbus is an IPC, because |
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> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Inter-process_communication |
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>> then you have high level "objects" and "methods", no matter the |
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>> language of the two sides of the wire communicating, or even if the |
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>> objects live in the same computer or not. |
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> Acc. to this link, dbus currently only uses unix sockets (so the |
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> "objects" must live on the same computer)... |
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> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/D-Bus |
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You can use AF_INET and AF_INET6 sockets for dbus messages (I *think* |
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I even remember seeing an implementation), but in practive I believe |
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nobody actually has done it. |
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>> is a complete IPC system. Neither sockets, shared memory nor pipes are |
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>> an IPC, because they lack a well defined protocol. You *can* do the |
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> See above. |
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> Also: |
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> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-ipc/ |
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> dbus is installed in my system, but only because I run Xfce4 (I am |
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> thinking of installing something else due to it's becoming bloated just |
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> like gnome). And I have "-dbus" in my global make.conf. |
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> PS. I am quite astonished at the fact that I have a computer that is |
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> _way_ faster than the first machine I installed GNU/Linux (an Amiga 4000 |
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> with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz) on but the "experience" is still the same; it |
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> takes about the same time to boot, the same time (or even slower) to |
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> load a program. It seems the faster the computer the more I have to wait |
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> for it to finish some task. Contradictory, no? Wonder why that is... |
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> (bloat?). |
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I like to call them "new features", but I see your point. I myself |
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prefer the new features. I gladly sacrifice a few cycles from my CPU |
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and a few megabytes from my harddrive to run my GNOME 3 desktop. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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