On 24/07/2013 11:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:17:51 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote: > >>> You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC >>> you already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light >>> daemon, can run system-wide or per-session and has the potential to >>> many of the IPC implementations you already have. Those are the ones >>> that don't happen to show up in ps so you hear very little whinging >>> about them. >> >> You might as well just use the existing IPC mechanisms too, > > Yes, lets have lots of IPC mechanisms instead of one daemon that handles > IPC for everything. While we're at it, let's get rid of syslog and add > file logging code to every program that needs it. cron and at seem a bit > of a waste of space too.
you forgot that shared library nonsense. Every app should just bundle static copies of everything it needs and leave it up to the dev to deal with bugs and security issues -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
