linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:51:41 +0200
From:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
To:	David Lang <david@...g.hm>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
	Harald Hoyer <harald@...hat.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Havoc Pennington <hp@...ox.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lukasz Skalski <l.skalski@...sung.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

Hi

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:43 PM, David Lang <david@...g.hm> wrote:
> If the justification for why this needs to be in the kernel is that you
> can't reliably prevent apps from exiting if there are pending messages, [...]

It's not.

> the answer of "preventing apps from exiting if there are pending messages
> isn't a sane thing to try and do" is a direct counter to that justification
> for including it in the kernel.

It's optionally used for reliable exit-on-idle.

Thanks
David
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