On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Justin Brown <justin.br...@fandingo.org> > 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 subscriber. Is there (or will there >> be) any mechanism that these signals can "expire" after some >> conditions are met, or will the data just continue to build-up in each >> subscriber until it frees the memfds? Additionally, would there be a >> way to automatically expire these signals after a period of time, >> once a certain number of signals are received, or preferably once a >> certain amount of data are received? If that is (or will be) possible, >> any idea how the subscriber would be handle signals expiring. > > Memfds or other fds cannot be broadcasted, only attached to directed messages. > > Kay
Thanks for the response. In that case, how efficient are signals in comparison to methods with kdbus? I was under the impression that memfds are one of the fundamental reason that kdbus will be suitable for sending large data payloads. Thanks, Justin _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
