DBus is a pile of shit. Tell me one thing that DBus does well. It is a huge piece of shit hack. If the Sussman were alive right now he would be fighting against DBus.
Not surprisingly the same people who worked on GNOME created DBus. The DBus C API is such a pile of shit that they have to get someone else to wrap their API to make it usable. But of course they make it into a DBus-GLib which still fucking sucks because you have to use GObjects and shit.
Not to mention the fact that there is no useful documentation of using either of the DBus APIs, and it seems that nobody has actually used those APIs, probably because they are total utter shit.
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Anonymous2008-08-26 12:37
God. It's like they purposefully tried to create a bloated piece of shit.
>>6,9
both of you have obviously never used plan 9 or inferno.
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Anonymous2008-08-26 14:17
>>9 pipe only works if you are communicating between processes that have been forked from one another. If you want to communicate between two processes that are not related, you cannot use pipe.
Maemo also uses DBus, but I haven't messed with it yet.
The only 2 good IPC systems I've seen are Rexx on the Amiga, and Erlang. (meaning 2 existing programs deciding to talk to each other, not pipe situations)