Upstart Client Library

[Harald Hoyer]

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi):
>> This sounds like Upstart is proposing a hard dependendency on D-Bus.
> 
> It proposes a hard dependency on the d-bus library and protocol.
> (There needs to be *some* way of talking to init ... and the d-bus
> protocol seems to be reasonably sane for doing this kind of thing)

talking to init can be accomplished without the overhead of dbus

> 
> It does not propose a hard dependency on the system d-bus daemon.
> (That'd make no sense, as init needs to be controllable without any
> system services running; conversely, you might want to start dbus from
> the boot ramdisk before switching to the "real" init daemon.)
> 

If dbus is required for upstart, then the dbus daemon is better integrated _in_ upstart.

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