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by jude- 4262 days ago
> I'd like to see additions to the Unix toolset that take advantage of some of those greater capabilities, in a language- and OS-indpendent way.

Don't get me wrong, I won't turn down structured IPC just because it's structured :) However, I have yet to see an IPC system that (1) gives you more than a byte-stream, and (2) allows for universal composability. Every IPC system I have ever come across sacrifices one of these properties to make gains in the other. While I haven't ruled it out, I'm skeptical (but would love to be proven wrong) that there exists a form of IPC that can meet both requirements.
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bitwize 4261 days ago
Dbus.

In the very near future, everything on Linux will be done with dbus.

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jude- 4261 days ago
I sincerely hope you are joking. Dbus-as-IPC doesn't make for composability at all, since each program must be aware of (1) the names and signatures of each other program's dbus-accessible methods, and (2) each other program's behavioral semantics with respect to the method invocation.
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