Prestart DBus services

[Michael Rasmussen]

Hi all,

In lastest releases of DBus your are able to instruct upstart to
prestart DBus services under boot, but what do you do when upstart is
not available? Can you instruct DBus to start the service synchronous?

Using upstart
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.some.DbusService
Exec=/usr/bin/DbusService
User=foo
UpstartJob=true

The reason for my question is that I have a service which takes a few
seconds to populate some internal data structure and when a client
requests service for the first time the function is called before the
data structure is populated and therefore returns an empty list.

I could of course wait in the function for the list to populate but
what if this wait time is longer than the hardcoded timeout in DBus?

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Hilsen/Regards
Michael Rasmussen

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