On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:42:25PM -0200, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > (...) > 4. There are other IPC mechanisms > > Yes, there are. But I think that each one has some drawbacks too. > CORBA, for example, is too heavy for simple use (Gnome developers can > tell a good story about that). XMLRPC needs a HTTP server or something > like that and the overhead of the communication protocol is not very > efficient for local use. Maybe there's another IPC mechanism that is > good, but maybe it doesn't have everything that DBus have (for > example, activation of daemons on demand). > > (...) I believe these aren't the 'other IPC mechanisms' they were talking about. What about FIFOs and sockets?
