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 1NhAZj-0001cE-EQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:41:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E888E09E1; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com (mail-fx0-f218.google.com [209.85.220.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC97E09E1 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so5541869fxm.29 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:41:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=GBrUuPvzlJccx7BI9a0czm+uEzdA7yFw2HtDOnDnkMI=; b=x3UQ+Os6/3mb1R7j13+gW1FtzDFn9jvYJ7V7RpV8dWFXyMVqAMq9w7734e+PfV5cpZ ojgtz2rOKV34+3Loiw2KuNzT3Glkhn/EwfYTszGvij1H8sIgB+4rYkTB4m4snNQh6qw8 /02IWDdhvFJGcevDdJnIj0KR3/3GtF/SI2TcE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Uv+gKUU3lqt5liawk9dYziXGGbYUbEKW2ilbPRU0q+VoJ09WVEnKAvwiRi5CoeN2fF QoSkfa4LAwvUtfA/92eN7JjFKrLXVEGCFdj9gH7DJDua2yCRx7VlW2Trzuxy6kFuKMXc B27IpuZHZtnuDL76MvHreC3pw+lpc9ENqW41g= Received: by 10.102.161.12 with SMTP id j12mr4332731mue.72.1266277280985; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:41:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e8sm36304952muf.5.2010.02.15.15.41.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:41:20 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:41:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <4B799E95.2010700@metux.de> <4B79AD4C.6000005@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <4B79AD4C.6000005@kutulu.org> 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: <201002160041.14360.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6a8e6867-0dcc-494c-b532-d3ca6e33dd30 X-Archives-Hash: 603f85a29278d794f984a6e03c27130e On Montag 15 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/15/2010 2:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > J. Roeleveld 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. > > > > Why not simply using tmpfs ? > > Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, > > and network agnostic. > > I'm kinda stunned that your arguments against D-Bus seems to boil down > to "just use 9p instead" given that plumber is a basic element of 9p and > does essentially the same job D-Bus does. So you're just swapping one > system-wide general-purpose IPC service out for another one? he is just trolling around.