From 858baba556a048b7c6556633cbe65614c194bba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:13:33 +0200 Subject: a more descriptive readme MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 17d54a5..bd71e2e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,2 +1,13 @@ A simple daemonless system for broadcasting messages locally. +bus uses a System V semaphore array and System V shared memory. +Buses are named; the key of the semaphore array and the +shared memory is stored in a regular file. + +Communication over bus is synchronous. The broadcast call does +not return until all listeners have received (and copyied) +the message. + +The software package contains a C library and a command line +utility. The package python-bus provides a Python 3 module. + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2