From freedesktop-dbus  Tue Mar 07 04:38:54 2023
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:38:54 +0000
To: freedesktop-dbus
Subject: Re: Fatal warnings in client code
Message-Id: <3473521.V25eIC5XRa () tjmaciei-mobl5>
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On Monday, 6 March 2023 19:57:11 PST Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> It seems to me, the whole concept of D-Bus is unsuited to applications
> which require long-lived connections with some degree of state that
> persists over their lifetime. It is best suited to individual
> request-response transactions. That way, you can recover from any loss
> of connection just by trying the transaction again (hopefully).

How long-lived do you need those connections to be? I don't usually run my 
laptop too long without rebooting (rolling distro, kernel upgrades), but 
sometimes I can go up to a full month. No connections break. On servers, 
connections to systemd via D-Bus can last years.

There's no problem with the length of the connection. Just don't send invalid 
messages that will get you kicked out of the bus. That hasn't been a problem 
for 16 years.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering