On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:28:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> Why is kdbus needed? > > Presumably because freedesktop crowd has made an architectural mistake and > pushed dbus as solution to all problems. And ran into limitations of > that, er, solution. Then, instead of perhaps reconsidering the wisdom of > their inspired decision, went for "let's push it kernelwards, it might > somewhat reduce the overhead and problems will be easier to chalk up to > something wrong being done by the kernel".
Well, yes, but the question I was actually trying to ask is: why does a containerized app need any kernel help at all for communication with the rest of the system (using dbus or anything else)? Passing socket fds into a container works just fine. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
