libdbus - simple mainloop?

[Thomas Themel]

Hi,

I'm currently writing dbus bindings for a library that needs to have minimal
dependencies and so am stuck with libdbus. Not a problem for the calls
themselves since they are rather simple, but I seem to misunderstand how to use
DBus with threads. I thought I'd make a separate thread to drive DBus, just 
looping over dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch(conn, -1) there.

While this does what I want when responding to method calls, I can't figure out
how to properly emit signals in this setup.  I can dbus_connection_send() the
message okay, but it doesn't actually show up on the bus until the next incoming message (eg a method call) arrives in my application.

I tried calling dbus_connection_flush() after the send, but that hangs,
probably because the main loop in another thread is holding the lock on the
connection.

Is it supposed to be this way? Is there a way to keep the simple blocking main
loop while still emitting signals at arbitrary times?

thanks,
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