skabus

What is it ?

skabus is a suite of programs and libraries for Unix systems that aim to implement a bus, i.e. a many-to-many interprocess communication mechanism.

It is very much a work in progress, and won't be complete for a long time. For now, it looks like a random collection of tools, even though there is a consistent vision behind them.

Installation

Requirements

A POSIX-compliant system with a standard C development environment
GNU make, version 3.81 or later
skalibs version 2.14.0.0 or later
execline version 2.9.4.0 or later
s6 version 2.11.4.0 or later

Licensing

skabus is free software. It is available under the ISC license.

Download

There is no official numbered release version of skabus at the moment.
But you can checkout a copy of the skabus git repository:
```
 git clone git://git.skarnet.org/skabus 
```

Compilation

See the enclosed INSTALL file for installation details.

Upgrade notes

This page lists the differences to be aware of between the previous versions of skabus and the current one.

Reference

Commands

All these commands exit 111 if they encounter a temporary error or hardware error, and 100 if they encounter a permanent error - such as a misuse. Short-lived commands exit 0 on success. Other exit codes are documented in the relevant page.

Publication/subscription

The skabus-dyntee program
The skabus-dynteed program
The skabus-dyntee-client program

Remote procedure calls

The skabus-rpc-daemon program
The skabus-rpcd program

Libraries

The skabus library interface

Related resources

skabus discussion

skabus is discussed on the skaware mailing-list.

Similar work

D-Bus is the most widely used Linux bus. It's also a horrible, inefficient mess.
ubus is OpenWrt's micro-bus architecture.
Mathias Andree's bus is a daemonless system for broadcasting messages locally.