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 1Nh7Uu-0008Ir-07 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:24:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57E8EE0966; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8A5E0966 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:23:40 -0500 Message-ID: <4B79AD4C.6000005@kutulu.org> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:23:40 -0500 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <20100210141843.6777b7c7@digimed.co.uk> <4B780861.1080505@metux.de> <201002151057.34557.joost@antarean.org> <4B799E95.2010700@metux.de> In-Reply-To: <4B799E95.2010700@metux.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Feb 2010 20:23:40.0548 (UTC) FILETIME=[C3134C40:01CAAE7C] X-Archives-Salt: 220ad4a4-61cd-4f23-8806-9a491d4a9a71 X-Archives-Hash: d8be7277ffdd27b88bd2ca9833d9ee37 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?