.TH LIBBUS 7 BUS-%VERSION% .SH NAME libbus - A simple daemonless system for broadcasting messages locally .SH DESCRIPTION .BR bus is a stupid-simple, thrilless, daemonless interprocess communication system for broadcasting messages. .SH RATIONALE We need an interprocess communication system similar to message queues. But we need broadcasting rather than anycasting, so we have a fast, simple and daemonless system for announcing events to any processes that might be interested. .SH FUTURE DIRECTION None. .SH SEE ALSO .BR bus (1), .BR bus (5), .BR bus_create (3), .BR bus_unlink (3), .BR bus_open (3), .BR bus_close (3), .BR bus_write (3), .BR bus_write_timed (3), .BR bus_read (3), .BR bus_read_timed (3), .BR bus_poll_start (3), .BR bus_poll_stop (3), .BR bus_poll (3), .BR bus_poll_timed (3), .BR bus_chown (3), .BR bus_chmod (3) .SH AUTHORS Principal author, Mattias Andrée. See the LICENSE file for the full list of authors. .SH LICENSE MIT/X Consortium License. .SH BUGS Please report bugs to https://github.com/maandree/bus/issues or to maandree@member.fsf.org