D-Bus best practices

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:32 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> b) timeouts: D-Bus method calls *do* timeout. There's no way around this, so 
> any call that can potentially take some time to execute should be designed in 
> a call/callback pattern: the call replies whether the action was initiated
> and a signal reports the end result.
> [This is an area where the protocol itself could use future improvement]
> 
There are patches that have been sitting in Bugzilla for some time now
that correct this problem, and allow you to have no timeout on message
calls.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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