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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: DBUS protocol on unix pipes?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2006-06-09 19:26:57
Message-ID: 200606092126.57945.thiago.macieira () trolltech ! com
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nf2 wrote:
>Could DBUS be used on unix stdin/stdout pipes?

Not out of the box, no. You'd need to hack support for that into the 
source code, because you need two pipes to achieve bidirectionality.

If you use a socketpair instead, you won't have this problem.

>The second question is about "streaming" large amounts of file-data with
>DBUS-one-way messages (signals). There might be a problem with flooding
>the outgoing message queue in an async system, when the receiving side
>is not picking up messages fast enough. Is there an easy way to check
>the length of this queue?

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