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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
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On 02/11/2010 03:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 > ...
> And don't start with sockets. That will result in a nightmare. dbus is a clean
> solution to a huge problem. Apps have to talk to each other. The only way to
> keep it sane is a standardized IPC daemon like dbus.

Aha!  This is a question that has confused me since I was still in diapers.
(And may be in them again soon enough :)

Could you (or anyone else here) give us a really dumbed-down summary
of why a dev would want/need to use a socket, versus a pipe, versus
a signal, versus dbus, versus, well, whatever else is out there?

Many thanks.