[mdlug] Systemd Should Be A Fork -- Why Is It Not?

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Wed Sep 2 01:13:43 EDT 2015


On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:02:45 -0400
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:


> You do realize the kdbus is the KDE integration into D-BUS and D-BUS
> is the 'official' IPC mechanism of the LINUX kernel that SystemD uses?

You might want to peruse these URLs:

* https://lwn.net/Articles/580194/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus#KDBUS

Dbus is user code. Kdbus would be implemented in the Kernel, if Linus
decides that's a good idea. So far Linus has said "no".

Kdbus is no more a KDE thing than is Dbus.

SteveT

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