How to free ressources allocated by dbus_bus_get ?

[Havoc Pennington]

10function wrote:
> 
> I was wondering how memory ressources claimed by 'dbus_bus_get' should be released.
> I used 'dbus_connection_unref' and 'dbus_connection_close' calls, but memory leaks are always present.
> 

dbus_bus_get() opens a shared connection, which means dbus saves it and 
will return it again to other callers of bus_get/connection_open who ask 
for the same bus.

You have to unref() the connection, but are not allowed to close it. 
(see API docs)

If you want to free shared connections you can call dbus_shutdown() just 
before your app exits. (see API docs on dbus_shutdown()) However, 
running valgrind with --show-reachable=no is just as good probably.

Havoc