checking whether a service is running

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Mike Gorse <mgorse at novell.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to either check whether a DBus name is taken without
> registering it or to prevent the service from being auto-launched when
> making a call via libdbus?

org.freedesktop.DBus.NameHasOwner on the bus.  Also, the
dbus_message_set_auto_start method controls on a per-message basis
whether it should auto-activate the service.