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We were talking about bare UNIX sockets and their potential drawbacks. I think they don't really scale / answer to all the needs D-Bus fulfills. Could you expa

by jraph 3y ago

We were talking about bare UNIX sockets and their potential drawbacks. I think they don't really scale / answer to all the needs D-Bus fulfills. Could you expand on your shared file idea? I'm interested. How do you implement this library without a central service? Note that in my humorous comment I still expose why I think a central program is necessary, now you can disagree with the use case of course.

amelius 3y ago
It's quite simple, actually. There is no need for a central entity, just like computers on the internet do not need a central server to communicate. You might say that they need a DNS server, but the equivalent of that on a UNIX system would be the filesystem, where named sockets can live (or you could use X11 properties to communicate between desktop apps). Anyway, I feel that all the microservices are making me lose control over my system (and systemd is quite literally the mother of all these microservices, hence why I bring it up here).