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From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:11:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 00/14] Bus1 Kernel Message Bus
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:17 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This proposal introduces bus1.ko, a kernel messaging bus. This is not a request
> for inclusion, yet. It is rather an initial draft and a Request For Comments.
>
> While bus1 emerged out of the kdbus project, bus1 was started from scratch and
> the concepts have little in common. In a nutshell, bus1 provides a
> capability-based IPC system, similar in nature to Android Binder, Cap'n Proto,
> and seL4. The module is completely generic and does neither require nor mandate
> a user-space counter-part.

One thing which is not so clear to me is the role of bus1 wrt. containers.
Can a container A exchange messages with a container B?
If not, where is the boundary? I guess it is the pid namespace.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard