about the D-Bus C API.

[Thiago Macieira]

Wang Jun wrote:
>I am using D-Bus C API. Is it possible to make sure the well known names
>are returned when dbus_message_get_sender(msg)
>and dbus_message_get_destination(msg) are called?

No.

get_sender ALWAYS returns the unique name.

get_destination returns what the sender chose. It can be either a unique 
or a well-known name.

>Currently, I am not using any matching rule for listening on dbus as
>I want to catch both method_calls and signals. So I use the
>  dbus_message_get_sender(msg) to check the sender and then call
>the relevant subroutines. But the function returns unique names
>instead of well known name...

That paragraph doesn't make sense. Without a matching rule, you don't 
receive the message in the first place.

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