How to get DBus sender's information in the code

[Serkan Kaba]

2011/5/4 Mike Gorse <mgorse at novell.com>:
> Hi Tao,
>
> I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question correctly, but, when your
> app receives a message, you can call dbus_message_get_sender to get the
> caller's D-Bus id, and, assuming you are using dbus-daemon to route the
> messages, you can call GetConnectionUnixProcessID to get the pid of the
> process that sent the message.  It is described in the D-Bus specification
> (http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html).
and there's GetConnectionUnixUser to get the uid of the user sending
the message.
>
> Hth,
> -Mike G-
>
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, tao wu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The scenario is like this:
>>
>> In a Linux based handheld device I have a C app which has dbus APIs
>> ready to be called by 3rd party apps. The DBus APIs are called during
>> booting time.
>>
>> Is there any system API I can use to in my functions to print the
>> caller's ID and save it to syslog?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
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