<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content='text/html; charset=utf-8'> <title>Samsung Enterprise Portal mySingle</title> <style> P, td, li {font-family:Arial, arial; font-size:9pt; margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;} body{font-family:Arial, arial; font-size:9pt;}</style> </HEAD><BODY>Dear Makuchaku,   Well.. using dbus_g_connection_unref and similar approach was the *struggle* I've talked about <sigh>   dbus_g_bus_get if (fork() == 0) {     dbus_g_connection_unref //  this closes the parent's dbus-connection !! }   Any development to resolve would introduce non-portable APIs specific to UNIX environment which I am reluctant to pursue.   Best regards,   Sean    ------- Original Message ------- Sender : मयंक जैन (makuchaku)<mayank.gnu@gmail.com> Date : 2007-04-05 15:14 Title : Re: dbus fork problem On 4/5/07, Sean Kang <sean_kang@samsung.com> wrote: > After strugging for a while, we've noticed that dbus connection doesn't seem > to work with fork() system call. > > The connection is copied but there is no API to properly close the > connection so the new connection can be made. Hi Sean, Though I've not used dbus-glib bindings with a system in which I had to fork, but maybe you can try dbus_g_connection_unref so that the refcount goes to zero & the object is finalized. I hope it helps :) Makuchaku http://www.makuchaku.info/blog </BODY></HTML>