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annotate dbus/description.txt @ rev 23435
updated plymouth (0.8.6.1 -> 0.9.4)
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Thu Apr 02 08:03:08 2020 +0100 (2020-04-02) |
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1 D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications.
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2 Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of
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3 complexity.
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5 D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing
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6 latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages
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7 are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method
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8 call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the
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9 system quite simple.
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11 It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.
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