Using debug-pipe connections in real apps

Havoc Pennington hp@redhat.com
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:18:06 -0500


On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:09, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
> I see that DBus uses "debug-pipe" connetions for build tests, which are
> created using socketpair.  This is exactly what I'd like to use in my app,
> but it seems limited to DBus internal debugging.  Could this type of
> connection be promoted to a fully-supported DBus feature?  -Nathan

I don't see why not; seems pretty straightforward. Maybe just rename the
method to "pipe" instead of "debug-pipe" and build it even with tests
disabled?

Havoc