Question about connections

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu Oct 15 21:10:23 PDT 2015


On Thursday 15 October 2015 18:08:11 Rick Mann wrote:
> After reading the spec, and looking at the API docs, I'm still a bit
> confused about the most basic task of connecting two apps.
> 
> I have two apps that I want to talk to each other. In the past, I've
> successfully connected them via dbus_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &err), on
> Debian and OS X.
> 
> But in practice, only these two apps will ever talk to each other. Can I
> make that connection without dbus-daemon running? 

Yes.

> If so, what's the right
> set of calls to get the DBusConnection object on each side? Thanks.

One creates a DBusServer and the other uses dbus_connection_open.

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