What are dbus services ?

Yoann Sculo yoann.sculo at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 10:06:03 PDT 2011


Hi,

Sorry for the late answer ...
Thank you for your explanation ! It helped ;) !

Yoann

2011/3/21 Alberto Mardegan <mardy at users.sourceforge.net>

> On 03/21/2011 01:26 AM, Yoann Sculo wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to understand exactly what are the dbus services for.
>> But I can't find explanations on this particular topic. I can understand
>> this is
>> a precise unique point on the bus. But I don't really understand the link
>> or
>> differences with proxies.
>>
>
> One process registers a service with the D-Bus daemon. All clients willing
> to use this service create a proxy for it.
> When clients call some methods on the proxy object, the proxy objects
> converts these methods into D-Bus calls, which are received and executed by
> the process which registered the service.
> A proxy is just an object in the client's memory space.
>
> HTH,
>  Alberto
>
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