FAQ notes

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Sun Aug 20 19:19:13 PDT 2006



Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> On Sat, August 19, 2006 19:42, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
>>> Does d-bus
>>> guarantee that the calls will arrive at the object in the same order in
>>> which I sent them off?
>> This is guaranteed. But it doesn't guarantee the replies come back in
>> order, just that replies come back in the order that the recipient
>> process sends them, which is up to the recipient.
> 
> So by implication it's also okay for an object to perform and complete a
> method call while a previous call is still in progress?

Yep. For example a legitimate implementation is that every method call 
runs asynchronously in a separate thread.

Havoc


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