Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

[Michal Suchanek]

On 30/12/2008, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 30 Dezember 2008 12:10:39 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
>
> > The underlying interface the two binaries use is different. However,
>  > they both show a window on my screen and access the same Documents
>  > folder for opening and saving files.
>  > This is all the compatibility one ever needs for a typical application.
>
>
> What about dbus?
>
>  Most of my typical applications use it for communication.

I am not sure how exactly dbus works. I have some vague idea that
applications connect to it through a unix socket through which they
can send or receive messages.

If you really want that you can probably mount the socket to the
environment of any application that would use it. With a sane package
management this should not be too challenging.

Thanks

Michal