Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

[Austin S Hemmelgarn]

On 2015-04-29 14:54, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

On Apr 29, 2015 5:48 AM, "Harald Hoyer" <har...@redhat.com> wrote:

  * Being in the kernel closes a lot of races which can't be fixed with
    the current userspace solutions.  For example, with kdbus, there is a
    way a client can disconnect from a bus, but do so only if no further
    messages present in its queue, which is crucial for implementing
    race-free "exit-on-idle" services

This can be implemented in userspace.

Client to dbus daemon: may I exit now?
Dbus daemon to client: yes (and no more messages) or no

Depending on how this is implemented, there would be a potential issue if a message arrived for the client after the daemon told it it could exit, but before it finished shutdown, in which case the message might get lost.

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