Neil Bothwick wrote: > Steven J. Long wrote: > > Alan McKinnon 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. > > > > 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.
It's called an "operating system." > 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. Strawmen burn so well, don't they? I know, let's do all process-scheduling in user-space, I mean who needs preemptive multi-tasking when we have such experts in the early userspace at our disposal. User-land threading works really well too: so long as we worship at the altar of the great God Lennart, blocking and synchronisation can be handled via prayer and the sacrifice of a small, modular utility every sunrise. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)
