<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Maybe an embarassing question, but one that also shows that my Linux knowledge is not really the best (an understatement!), but may be needed to be addressed in any case: <blockquote>what are UNIX_FDs used for and how is one supposed to use them in dbus ? </blockquote> How important is it to support them? Is it already o.k. to be able to accept and send arguments of type UNIX_FD (which I have implemented in the ooRexx binding) or is there something else that must be supported in addition? (Are there any working dbus examples somewhere using UNIX_FDs, such that one can learn from them how to use these datatypes?) I noticed that UNIX_FD values seem to be set by dbus which makes sure that they get a unique counter value. However I have not found usages of it so far, but noticed in another mailing on this list (dated July 15th, 2011, subject: "dbus-java for Bluethooth HDP"), that the Java implementation does not support them at this time and that caused a problem with a dbus service, "bluez". Any hint/answer highly appreciated! ---rony </body> </html>