From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reading D-Bus messages Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:43:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250074064 29743 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2009 10:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mario Lang , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 12 12:47:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MbBMm-0007F9-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:47:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbBMk-0008IE-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbBKx-0006TA-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbBKr-0006Pd-9A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52917 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbBKq-0006Oq-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.alcatel.de ([194.113.59.96]:43965) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbBKq-00075m-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from destgsu0048.stgl.sel.alcatel.de (destgsu0048.de.alcatel-lucent.com [149.204.242.4]) by mailrelay2.alcatel.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/ICT) with ESMTP id n7CAhGbG016870; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:43:36 +0200 Original-Received: from slbhn1.alcatel.de (slbhn1.de.alcatel-lucent.com [149.204.90.35]) by destgsu0048.stgl.sel.alcatel.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id n7CAhFY4006238; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:43:15 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: (YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Alcanet-virus-scanned: n7CAhFY4006238 at destgsu0048.stgl.sel.alcatel.de X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 149.204.45.73 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114137 Archived-At: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu writes: > Usually we monitor file/socket descriptors in such cases. D-Bus seems > to have a mechanism DBusWatch for this purpose. DBusWatch allows you to install handlers. IIUC, those handlers are called only when dbus_watch_handle() has been applied. File descriptors are not monitored in the sense, that a handler is called, when there are incoming messages. This still means polling. > Maybe what the GPM support is doing is helpful. Thanks for the hint, I will check the code. Best regards, Michael.