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c.f. https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki/daemon-purpose https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki... the daemon sep

by nateb2022 1y ago

c.f. https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki/daemon-purpose https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki... the daemon separates userspace from root domain, and ensures that the code running with root privileges is very small and easily auditable

__turbobrew__ 1y ago
Maybe I am dumb, but why does it have to be a daemon? Why not have the user process fork off the privileged binary to collect data and return the results through stdout?
- unaindz 1y ago
  Forking a process is not free and starting one every hundred of a millisecond* seems very expensive. *I'm do not know which frequency it updates the data but it's usually 1 sec to 0.1 sec.