Welcome to the KBus documentation

KBUS is a lightweight messaging system for Linux, particularly aimed at embedded platforms. Message passing is managed by a kernel module, via reading/writing /dev/kbus0 style devices. Python bindings are provided, as is a C library.

Contents:

• A simple introduction to using KBUS
• KBUS – Lightweight kernel-mediated messaging
  • Summary
  • Intentions
  • The basics
  • Messages
  • Types of message
  • KBUS end points - Ksocks
  • More information
• KBUS Python bindings for Messages
  • Message
  • Announcement
  • Request and stateful_request
  • Reply and reply_to
  • MessageId
  • Status
  • OrigFrom
  • split_replier_bind_event_data
• KBUS Python bindings for Ksocks
  • Ksock
  • Ksock/C datastructures
  • Other functions
• KBUS C bindings
  • kbus/linux/kbus_defns.h
  • libkbus/kbus.h
  • libkbus/limpet.h
• Utilities
  • errno.py
  • kmsg
  • runlimpet and runlimpet.py
• KBUS Limpets - an introduction with goldfish
  • A few more technical details
• KBUS Limpets - an introduction
  • The problem, in brief
  • Summary
  • Restrictions and caveats
  • With goldfish bowls
  • Python and C implementations
  • Network protocol
• KBUS Python bindings for Limpets
  • Limpets
• The KBUS documentation and sphinx
  • Pre-built documentation
  • Building the documentation
  • The Python bindings
  • Mime type magic
  • Mercurial gotchas

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Note

This documentation is kept as reStructuredText documents, managed with Sphinx. The HTML files in the Google code repository are provided for convenience, and may not always be absolutely up-to-date with head-of-tree.