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The reason people think that IPC is not important (and I agree with you, btw) is because so often bad designs are built around IPC. The reason Linux is opposed

The reason people think that IPC is not important (and I agree with you, btw) is because so often bad designs are built around IPC. The reason Linux is opposed to integrating IPC into the kernel is because it's been done more than once, poorly, resulting in a lousy API that needs to be supported forever by kernel devs. So come up with a good solution.

TD-Linux 10y ago
What previous "bad IPC" mechanisms were integrated into mainline Linux? Only one I can think of is sysv shared memory.
- mfukar 10y ago
  Most recently, kdbus. It wasn't even ABI-compatible.
  - dezgeg 10y ago
    kdbus was never merged to mainline.
    - darfs 10y ago
      Maybe that's why it's Bad :?
    - mfukar 10y ago
      Sorry, I took 'integrated' to mean something other than merged. No, kdbus was never part of the kernel repo.
- ktRolster 10y ago
  All of them :) Pipes are too specialized, localSockets are kind of a pain, etc.