message lost if dbus_connection_close() follows send() too quickly

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:55 PM,  <dbus at eehouse.org> wrote:
> I'm working on a bug in a client/server pair communicating over dbus
> via dbus-daemon.  The server sends periodic messages to the client
> using dbus_connection_send().  The client eventually sends one message
> and quits, calling dbus_connection_send(), dbus_connection_flush(),
> and then dbus_connection_close() before exit().  Expected behavior is
> that the server still receives the message, and in fact that's what we
> see 99% of the time, but occasionally it does not.

There's a bug and previous discussion about this; I don't have links
handy, but basically to work around this issue what you need to do for
now is wait for the reply to all messages sent before closing the
connection.