Services calling back to clients

[David Eriksson]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:49 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've an application in which clients can request the server to perform a
> lengthy task, and report the results back to the server.  A normal
> call/return process isn't usable as the results are delivered
> incrementally.  I can't use signals as they get send to every process
> which is listening, and as these signals could be quite frequent and
> large (my tests easily transfer 2Mb) this is quite an overhead.

The above sounds like what I solved like this:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2005-May/002671.html

(Don't pay too much attention to the fact that the thread is about the
observer pattern... :-)

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