Re: DBus binding & direct connections (p2p)?

[Michael Albinus]

Nicolas Petton <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Yes, I'll give it a shot.  I'll start by looking at the existing usages
>>> in C of direct DBus communications.
>>
>> Could you send me a pointer?
>
> Sure.  One thing I'm interested in is connecting Indium with
> WebKitGTK+.  The remote inspector server starts a p2p dbus connection,
> and the client connects to it, see:
>
> https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebKit/UIProcess/glib/RemoteInspectorClient.cpp#L160

Well, this is g_dbus_connection_new_for_address, see
<https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GDBusConnection.html#g-dbus-connection-new-for-address>.

The gio implementation of D-Bus offers functions, which are not
available in libdbus-1.so, the reference implementation we use in Emacs.

> Cheers,
> Nico

Best regards, Michael.