Re: Compatibility between D-Bus and kdbus
Lennart Poettering <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 24.11.14 18:40, Thiago Macieira ([email protected]) wrote: > Another thought that comes to mind: should we reserve the entire highest bit > in connection IDs for broadcasts? It would allow for the existence of > multicast groups in the future. I discussed this quickly with the kdbus guys, and while none of us was thrilled about the posibility of introducing such a concept we all agreed that if it should be introduced one day it really should be part of the well-known names concept, not the unique names concept. Meaning: you'd put a label on a group, and join the group by the label then, rather than via numeric ids... In general, numeric ids are about being automatic, and well-known names are about discoverability. But mcast memberships should never be automatic, but only about discoverability, hence using unique ids for identifying them sounds wrong. Hope that makes sense. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel