dbus cleanup question

Havoc Pennington hp at pobox.com
Thu Feb 21 07:23:37 PST 2008


Hi,

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Macartney, Geoff
<gmacartney at tycoint.com> wrote:
>  I'm talking through my hat - I've actually called dbus_bus_get twice; my
>  library is composed of two bits, one to listen for events on dbus, which
>  calls dbus_bus_get; and another bit to send messages to dbus, which can
>  be used without the listening side of things being invoked (it does a
>  send, then a flush). This second bit also does dbus_bus_get, in order to
>  get a handle to the bus so it can send the event.
>
>  Is this my problem? Do I need to arrange so that I only call the
>  dbus_bus_get once?
>

It's fine to call it twice, but then you own two references that you
have to drop before you shutdown, instead of one reference.

Havoc


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