December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 36m
English
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.
Linux generally supports two D-Bus types: system-wide and session-specific D-Bus instances:
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