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If the point is to have Android style IPC, why not just pull a version of Binder into the mainline kernel?
by jschwartzi 12y ago
If the point is to have Android style IPC, why not just pull a version of Binder into the mainline kernel?
- 0xFFC 12y agoAs far As I can remember in mailling list one of kernel developer mention "android IPC (Its name I think is binder) is completely broken" , He didn't mention any evidence for his claim.
- the_why_of_y 12y agoAndroid's Binder was already merged into the Linux kernel (not just "staging", the real thing) since 3.19... half a year now. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=777783e0abae3cab7555bb182776f9ffaa35631a https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.... But not many people are aware of that; since neither systemd nor Lennart Poettering have anything to do with it, the usual armchair architects did not paste their, uhm, well considered opinions about how much it sucks and is the end of the UNIX philosophy all over the comment threads when it happened.