Emitting signals

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 27.07.05 14:14, Ross Burton (ross at burtonini.com) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:21 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > Yes, signals are broadcast to all clients.  I'd suggest either sending
> > > the signals and make the client filter the signals itself.  My app
> > > solves this by sending normal messages to the client, but I can do this
> > > as I've got a client library which handles the incoming messages and
> > > transforms them into GObject signals for the applications.
> > 
> > Isn't this a waste of resources? You're spamming all DBUS clients
> > with signals only one client might be interested in, arent' you? If
> > hundreds of clients are connected to the bus (which is easily
> > possible, since avahi uses the system bus), you'll wake up all clients
> > for nothing.
> 
> Clients have to register a filter to receive signals, so you'll only
> send it to all Avahi clients.

This is bad enough, isn't it?

Are these filters processed on the client side or by the bus daemon?

Thanks,
        Lennart

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