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Re:Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal by rwmj on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:29AM (#12312306)
I thought the interesting part of kdbus was the "memory sealing" - you could take a shared memory buffer, write to it, then "seal" it (so no further changes were allowed) and share it with another process. I believe you cannot efficiently do that in userspace. That doesn't seem to be part of this proposal.
Re:Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal by bluetech on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:02AM (#12312507)
There is memfd_create(2) (see discussion under "File sealing" and the related fcntls).
Re:Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal by tomegun on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:48PM (#12317298)
memory sealing can be used by anything that can do fd passing, which bus1 does (as does UDS). That code is already upstream and was not really tied to kdbus.