disappearing messages with dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch & dbus_connection_pop_message

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

Tim Wuyts wrote:
> -      // non blocking read of the next available message
> -      dbus_connection_read_write(conn, 0);
> +      // blocking read of the next available message
> +      dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch(conn, -1);
>        msg = dbus_connection_pop_message(conn);
>  

You changed two things here: you made it blocking (the -1) and you made 
it dispatch messages. If you dispatch a message, it won't be available 
to pop. So, you "lose" the message.

If you install a handler for the message, e.g. with 
dbus_connection_register_fallback() or register_object_path(), then that 
handler would receive the message when you dispatch. But if you have no 
handlers, dispatching just drops the message.

In short, you need to choose between dispatching to handlers, or 
bypassing all that and just popping messages off to handle them 
yourself. Doing both doesn't make sense.

Havoc