dbus signals

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 22:43 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> >Is there a way to get signals on the dbus that were emitted before the
> >listener was started?
> 
> No. You only get signals that were emitted after you added the rule that 
> matches them.

The correct way to deal with this is for applications to request state
from names on the bus they care about and then start listening for
signals to deal with state change.  Trying to construct a system which
works purely on signals is an infinitely complex problem.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>