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[Bill Nottingham]

Martin Langhoff (martin.langhoff at gmail.com) said: 
> An excellent counterexample is incrond - I pass 'events' to scripts
> using incrond's hooks into inotify. The scripts themselves are not
> running, I only have one tiny tiny daemon listening. I can rig it to
> handle thousands of specific different events and scripts, and still
> the footprint is small (and if I monitor directories smartly, it
> doesn't need to burden the kernel much either).

Honestly, they're different usage cases. dbus is for exposing
services and objects through a simple IPC interface - if you're
exposing an object, you sort of need a backing for it.

It honestly sounds like you're using incrond for something that
would fit into upstart's usage model.

Bill