Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:55:34 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 |
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 07:19:49PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > > > >> The following changes since commit 9eccca0843205f87c00404b663188b88eb248051: > >> > >> Linux 4.0-rc3 (2015-03-08 16:09:09 -0700) > >> > >> are available in the git repository at: > >> > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/ tags/kdbus-4.1-rc1 > >> > >> for you to fetch changes up to 9fb9cd0f4434a23487b6ef3237e733afae90e336: > >> > >> kdbus: avoid the use of struct timespec (2015-04-10 14:34:53 +0200) > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >> kdbus for 4.1-rc1 > >> > >> Here's the kdbus pull request for 4.1-rc1. > >> > >> It's been under development for many years now, and been in linux-next > >> for many months, and has undergone loads of testing a review and even a few > >> good arguments. It comes with full documentation and tests. > > > >> There has been a few complaints about the code, notably from people who > >> don't like the use of metadata in the bus messages. That is actually > >> one of the main features here, as we can get this data in a secure and > >> reliable way, and it's something that userspace requires today. So > >> while it does look "odd" to people who are not familiar with dbus, this > >> is something that finally fixes a number of almost unfixable races in > >> the current dbus implementations. > > > > And the code that transfers the meta-data is wrong. > > In fact it is worse than I thought.
Please see the email response I just wrote to Andy about this, it should address these misconceptions.
thanks,
greg k-h
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