Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:30:07PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:12 +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, 29. November 2014, 01:32:22 schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek:
>
> > New dbus client library is also slated to become
> > public when its ready and kdbus is upstreamed. Various dbus apis
> > are documented and stable.
>
> Have you seen this?
> http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2014-11.html#e2014-11-23T09_26_01.txt
I have, and I wasn't particularly impressed.
The guy has trouble figuring out what "LockSession(session)" could possibly mean.
He criticizes the spec (from 2003) for being hard to implement and then
libsystemd-bus for implementing it. He also misses the fact that d-bus
performance has very little to do with the overhead of 4 bytes in the message
header, but rather the latency caused by multiple context switches, user
space querying /proc to gather information, repeated decodings of a
message as it is passed along, and the occasional transfer of large buffers.
So yeah, it's an uninformed rant with a vaguely defined target.
Zbyszek
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