D-Bus: D-Bus low-level public API

D-Bus 1.16.2

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D-Bus low-level public API

The low-level public API of the D-Bus library. More...

## Topics
| Address parsing
| Parsing addresses of D-Bus servers.
| Message bus APIs
| Functions for communicating with the message bus.
| DBusConnection
| Connection to another application.
| Error reporting
| Error reporting.
| Utility macros
| TRUE, FALSE, NULL, and so on
| Memory Allocation
| dbus_malloc(), dbus_free(), etc.
| DBusMessage
| Message to be sent or received over a DBusConnection.
| Miscellaneous
| Miscellaneous API that doesn't cleanly fit anywhere else.
| DBusPendingCall
| Pending reply to a method call message.
| Protocol constants
| Defines constants which are part of the D-Bus protocol.
| DBusServer
| Server that listens for new connections.
| Shared constants
| Shared header included by both libdbus and C/C++ bindings such as the GLib bindings.
| Type signature parsing
| Parsing D-Bus type signatures.
| Utility functions for strings with special syntax
| Parsing D-Bus type signatures.
| Thread functions
| dbus_threads_init() and dbus_threads_init_default()
| DBusTimeout
| Object representing a timeout.
| Basic types
| dbus_bool_t, dbus_int32_t, etc.
| DBusWatch
| Object representing a file descriptor to be watched.

## Detailed Description

The low-level public API of the D-Bus library.

libdbus provides a low-level C API intended primarily for use by bindings to specific object systems and languages. D-Bus is most convenient when used with the GLib bindings, Python bindings, Qt bindings, Mono bindings, and so forth. This low-level API has a lot of complexity useful only for bindings.