dbus_connection_dispatch calls exit

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:03 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:

> I'm writing a daemon to manage DVB cards and make use of D-Bus to
> communicate with other applications using dbus-glib. Recently, I
> discovered that dbus_connection_dispatch calls the exit function when
> scanning for channels takes longer (like for DVB-S).
> 
> In which scenario does dbus_connection_dispatch call exit and how can I
> prevent it from doing this? Maybe, dbus_server_setup_with_g_main is useful?
> 
It calls exit() when the bus connection is lost.

You can prevent this by calling dbus_connection_set_exit_on_disconnect
with FALSE as an argument, after dbus_bus_get() - which on more recent
versions of dbus will not call exit() itself if it fails to get a
connection.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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