linux-kernel - Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus

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Message-ID: <553788A9.6090006@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:40:25 -0400
From:	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus

On 2015-04-21 22:32, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>
>> If kdbus were a general purpose IPC tool
>
>   .. but it's not ..
>

Except, IIRC, that was one of the stated design goals in the original 
patch set.  I'm pretty sure that i remember a rather verbose exposition 
that pretty much could be summarized as "Linux has no general purpose 
IPC in the kernel, this fixes that"



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