Hi Michael,

thanks for the helpful reply.

An updated patch is attached.

There seems to be some oddities concerning the ChangeLog, I don't know
where these come from.

> In general, I agree with your proposal. I have some few comments:
> 
> - The optional parameter in `dbus-register-method' and
>   `dbus-register-property' shall be called `dont-register-service'. This
>   would fit the dbus terminology we use so far.

Done.

> - We might introduce a new function `dbus-register-service' (in dbusbind.c).
>   It could offer optional argument flags, a list of the supported flags
>   of "org.freedesktop.DBus.RequestName"
>   (DBUS_NAME_FLAG_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT, DBUS_NAME_FLAG_REPLACE_EXISTING,
>   DBUS_NAME_FLAG_DO_NOT_QUEUE). This function shall be called in
>   `dbus-register-method' and `dbus-register-property' when
>   `dont-register-service' is nil. Btw, the function
>   `dbus-unregister-service' exists already ...

I would rather tackle this change in a separate patch later.

> - It would be great, if you could add also changed doc strings, changed
>   dbus.texi, ChangeLog and etc/NEWS entries.

Done.

> > === modified file 'src/dbusbind.c'
> > --- src/dbusbind.c	2010-10-01 13:56:33 +0000
> > +++ src/dbusbind.c	2010-10-03 02:17:34 +0000
> > @@ -1983,10 +1983,16 @@
> >  
> >    /* Request the known name from the bus.  We can ignore the result,
> >       it is set to -1 if there is an error - kind of redundancy.  */
> > -  dbus_error_init (&derror);
> > -  result = dbus_bus_request_name (connection, SDATA (service), 0, &derror);
> > -  if (dbus_error_is_set (&derror))
> > -    XD_ERROR (derror);
> > +  if (!dont_request_name || NILP (dont_request_name))
> 
> dont_request_name is a Lisp object, it is nil when not used in the
> call. You shall use
> 
> if (NILP (dont_request_name))

Done.

Kind regards,
Jan