Question on C code - any programmatic way of setting DBUS_BUS_SESSION address?

[Olivier Hochreutiner]

>  While in dbus_bus.c (v1.1.20) I could see method like internal_bus_get,
>  which has this code line:
>
>  address = bus_connection_addresses[address_type];
>
>  I don't see any way of setting that address programmatically and without
>  touching environment settings. Is it possible?
>
>  Why not have extended version of dbus_bus_get:
>
>  Instead of:
>
>  dbus_bus_get (DBusBusType  type,
>               DBusError   *error)
>
>  Have this:
>
>  dbus_bus_get (DBusBusType  type,
>               const char* address,
>               DBusError   *error)
>
>  And then reflect to that in internal_bus_get accordingly?
>
>  What do you think?

I believe you can just do:

putenv("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=<address>");

before calling dbus_bus_get() ?

Anyway I don't believe D-Bus mainainers are likely to make an API change...

Best,

Olivier