DBusGConnection attached to two difrent contexts

David Zeuthen zeuthen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 10:12:25 PDT 2012


Hey,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> And note that the D-Bus daemon imposes an upper limit of 5 minutes on a call,
> so you should not design methods that can take over a minute to execute under
> optimal conditions.

This is not true. Scott and others fixed dbus-daemon to remove its 6
hour (not five minutes) limitation years ago.

> Instead, return immediately indicating that you received the request and
> everything is ok, then send a signal once the operation has completed.

I don't think this is good advice (method+signal is more complicated
than just a method) but YMMV.

    David


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