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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by ktRolster on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @09:57PM (#12802358)
The reason people think that IPC is not important (and I agree with you, btw) is because so often bad designs are built around IPC.

The reason Linux is opposed to integrating IPC into the kernel is because it's been done more than once, poorly, resulting in a lousy API that needs to be supported forever by kernel devs.

So come up with a good solution.

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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by TD-Linux on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:32AM (#12803444)
What previous "bad IPC" mechanisms were integrated into mainline Linux? Only one I can think of is sysv shared memory.
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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by ktRolster on Thursday October 27, 2016 @02:49PM (#12808232)
All of them :)

Pipes are too specialized, localSockets are kind of a pain, etc.

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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by mfukar on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:37AM (#12803843)
Most recently, kdbus. It wasn't even ABI-compatible.
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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by dezgeg on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:06AM (#12803935)
kdbus was never merged to mainline.
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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by mfukar on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:55AM (#12804064)
Sorry, I took 'integrated' to mean something other than merged. No, kdbus was never part of the kernel repo.
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Re:Bus1 – Kernel Message Bus by darfs on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:12AM (#12803946)
Maybe that's why it's Bad :?
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