DBUS protocol on unix pipes?

[nf2]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> nf2 wrote:
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>> Aah thanks. So i need to pass the filedescriptor as command line
>> parameter to the child.
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> That's one option. Another is to use one of the standard filedescriptors.
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I guess you mean when calling dup2() before exec-ing the child process. 
I didn't know that i can pass a bidirectional socket instead of a pipe 
as stdin or stdout. But - why not.
>> And then i have to use the following internal functions on both sides?
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> You're not supposed to use internal functions.
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I know. But how to create the DBusConnection on top of an open 
filedescriptor without using those internal functions?

>> Just to explain this more precisely: The required feature would be to
>> receive a callback from DBusConnection when the outgoing message queue
>> is empty - to pick up the next data-chunk (like dataReq in KIO).
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> When the library tells you to switch off the file descriptor 
> watch-for-write, that's when  you know the outgoing queue is empty.
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I see - so i have to hack this into the eventloop integration (which 
means i cannot use the standard glib or Qt bindings)

Cheers,
Norbert