Why DESTINATION?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 18.02.19 07:29, Felipe Gasper (felipe at felipegasper.com) wrote:

> Given that the DESTINATION header that a client receives appears
> always to be its unique bus name, which the client already has, why
> send this header in the first place? Does this header, as a client
> receives it, ever carry useful information?

The sender has to fill it in, so that the broker (i.e. dbus-daemon)
knows which client to propagate it to.

So, it's relevant when a client sends a message, but it's indeed not
too interesting when a client recvs a message.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat