Re: Broadcast to specific user?
Felipe Gasper <felipe-c4PQK5fb7feI/[email protected]>
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> On Oct 28, 2020, at 10:29 AM, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 14:30:37 -0400, Felipe Gasper wrote: >> Is it possible with D-Bus to broadcast a signal such that only clients >> logged in as a specific user or group will receive the message? > > If you want to send non-public information on the system bus, you can't > use broadcasts. If you want to emulate a more controlled multicast by > sending individual unicast signals to each recipient, you should > implement your own subscription mechanism to avoid waking up clients > that have the right user/group but don't care about this particular > message, for example: Thank you for this. This context doesn’t have a “service” that would manage subscriptions. I think we can actually make unicast work, though, which solves this problem a bit more simply. -FG _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus