From freedesktop-dbus  Tue Nov 13 16:56:03 2007
From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr () gmail ! com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:56:03 +0000
To: freedesktop-dbus
Subject: Re: about the D-Bus C API.
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On 13/11/2007, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote:
> Signals can specify a destination. That seems wrong to me, if a signal is
> supposed to be a broadcast.

It's not, it's just a notification.

See the thread earlier about someone who wanted to send async
notifications about the progress of a long-running dbus method call.
You wouldn't broadcast that, you'd send it directly as a unicast
signal.

Have fun,

Avery
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