D-Bus communication
The D-Bus daemon provides an inter-process communication channel between applications. Unlike the traditional IPC methods, D-Bus is a higher-level communication channel that offers more than simple signaling or memory sharing. Applications that want to chat over the D-Bus link with one of the many D-Bus compatible libraries, such as libdbus, sd-bus (part of systemd), GDBus, and QtDBus.
The D-Bus daemon is part of the systemd application suite.
Understanding D-Bus
Linux generally supports two D-Bus types: system-wide and session-specific D-Bus instances:
- The system-wide D-Bus is the main instance used for system communication. Many services or daemons will associate themselves with the system D-Bus to allow others to communicate ...
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