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What is the advantage of dbus over Unix sockets?
by wrkronmiller 5y ago
What is the advantage of dbus over Unix sockets?
- yrro 5y agoWhat's the advantage of REST when you have TCP sockets?
- taway098123 5y agoDbus is mostly just a message queue for Unix sockets. Think Kafka or SQS but only for local services.
- kelnos 5y agoApples and oranges. DBus actually uses unix sockets (though I believe it can make use of other transports as well). If you're going to use a raw unix socket, you have to design your own RPC mechanism over it. For some things, that may not be a big deal, and may be preferable to pulling in a dependency like DBus. But for other things, not having to do that work might be a win. DBus also allows for fine-grained permissions that you can't get with unix sockets without designing and building that mechanism yourself.