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Package: dbus

Description: simple interprocess messaging system (system message bus)
D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.
D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the system quite simple.
It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.
This package provides a fully-functional D-Bus system bus with activation support, used for communication between system services, and depends on most of the other components of the reference implementation of D-Bus.
To provide a complete D-Bus session bus, install one of the packages that implement the dbus-session-bus virtual package, such as dbus-user-session. The recommended implementation is indicated by the default-dbus-session-bus virtual package.
Homepage: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/
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Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/dbus

Other packages built from the same source:

dbus-system-bus-common dbus-user-session libdbus-1-3 dbus-bin dbus-daemon
dbus-session-bus-common

Manual page search:

byobu-reconnect-sockets(1) dbus-cleanup-sockets(1) dbus-daemon(1)
dbus-monitor(1) dbus-run-session(1) dbus-send(1)
dbus-update-activation-environment(1) dbus-uuidgen(1) gdbus(1)
netplan-dbus(8)

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