From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngxin-00037n-0n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:58:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1B15E05A5; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CABAE05A5 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.142] (helo=smtp11.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngxhx-0005Ek-Nk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:57:37 +0100 Received: from 5353258a.cable.casema.nl ([83.83.37.138] helo=data.hosts.antarean.org) by smtp11.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngxhv-0004jg-Vd for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:57:36 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9A227AAB for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:57:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.hosts.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.hosts.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yX7CwsWmMBXb for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:57:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.hosts.antarean.org [10.1.5.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BDB86DBF for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:57:35 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:57:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.3.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <20100210141843.6777b7c7@digimed.co.uk> <4B780861.1080505@metux.de> In-Reply-To: <4B780861.1080505@metux.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002151057.34557.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Ngxhv-0004jg-Vd X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.185, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_40 -0.18) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: fb4744b5-9639-4ff6-b065-c4c845b3b40c X-Archives-Hash: 18eb653e315ada3a54c10320df9093a2 On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, > why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem. And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the memory I have. A simple message passed to apps which are listening is much better. It's short-lived and only uses (minimal) resources when the message is broadcast. After that, it doesn't linger, unless I am running an app that stores these messages somewhere. (Probably a debugger) -- Joost