Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Justin Brown
Kay and Lennart, Thanks for taking the time to clarify everything. It's greatly appreciated. Cheers, Justin On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Justin Brown > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Lennart Poettering >> wrote: >>> On Tu

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Kay Sievers
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Justin Brown wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Lennart Poettering > wrote: >> On Tue, 25.02.14 10:41, Justin Brown (justin.br...@fandingo.org) wrote: >> >> And broadcast signals should never be large datagrams, but >> only very short. > > Could you elabor

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Justin Brown
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 25.02.14 10:41, Justin Brown (justin.br...@fandingo.org) wrote: > > And broadcast signals should never be large datagrams, but > only very short. Could you elaborate on this point? One of the major points of emphasis with kdbu

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Kay Sievers
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/02/14 17:30, Kay Sievers wrote: >> There is not real difference, everything is just a message, being a >> signal or a method. Only signals are limited to pure copied data, >> disallowing fds; therefore signals will not be suitable for

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/02/14 17:30, Kay Sievers wrote: > There is not real difference, everything is just a message, being a > signal or a method. Only signals are limited to pure copied data, > disallowing fds; therefore signals will not be suitable for really > large data. D-Bus allows unicast signals (libdbus A

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 25.02.14 10:41, Justin Brown (justin.br...@fandingo.org) wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Justin Brown > > wrote: > >> I've been reading over some of the articles about KDBus and have a > >> question about reclaiming m

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Kay Sievers
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Justin Brown wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Justin Brown >> wrote: >>> I've been reading over some of the articles about KDBus and have a >>> question about reclaiming memfds. Let's say that I ha

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-25 Thread Justin Brown
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Justin Brown > wrote: >> I've been reading over some of the articles about KDBus and have a >> question about reclaiming memfds. Let's say that I have a process >> which is sending out a large amount of data

Re: [systemd-devel] KDBus Signals and Timeouts

2014-02-24 Thread Kay Sievers
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Justin Brown wrote: > I've been reading over some of the articles about KDBus and have a > question about reclaiming memfds. Let's say that I have a process > which is sending out a large amount of data over lots of signals, and > there are more than one potential