Packages: gio-2.0 gio-unix-2.0 posix D-Bus Program: client [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] interface Test : Object { public abstract string test (UnixOutputStream output_stream) throws IOError; } void create_streams (out UnixInputStream input, out UnixOutputStream output) throws IOError { int pipefd[2]; if (Posix.pipe (pipefd) < 0) { throw new IOError.FAILED ("Pipe creation failed"); } input = new UnixInputStream (pipefd[0], true); output = new UnixOutputStream (pipefd[1], true); } void main () { // client Test test = Bus.get_proxy_sync (BusType.SESSION, "org.example.Test", "/org/example/test"); UnixInputStream i; UnixOutputStream o; create_streams (out i, out o); try { test.test (o); // We expect the request to fail assert_not_reached (); } catch (Error e) { } } Program: server [DBus (name = "org.example.Test")] class Test : Object { public void test (UnixOutputStream output_stream) throws IOError { uint8[] buffer = new uint8[1]; buffer[0] = 42; output_stream.write (buffer); } } MainLoop main_loop; void client_exit (Pid pid, int status) { // client finished, terminate server assert (status == 0); main_loop.quit (); } void main () { var conn = Bus.get_sync (BusType.SESSION); conn.register_object ("/org/example/test", new Test ()); // try to register service in session bus var request_result = conn.call_sync ("org.freedesktop.DBus", "/org/freedesktop/DBus", "org.freedesktop.DBus", "RequestName", new Variant ("(su)", "org.example.Test", 0x4), null, 0, -1); assert ((uint) request_result.get_child_value (0) == 1); // server ready, spawn client Pid client_pid; Process.spawn_async (null, { "dbus_filedescriptor_errors_client" }, null, SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, null, out client_pid); ChildWatch.add (client_pid, client_exit); main_loop = new MainLoop (); /* Exhaust fds before the incoming request */ int fd = 0; while (fd >= 0) fd = Posix.open ("/", 0); main_loop.run (); }