Is there an equivalent to Linux DBus on OSX? I mean, is there a “message bus” available by default on OSX?
Disclaimer: OSX newbie here.
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Is there an equivalent to Linux DBus on OSX? I mean, is there a “message bus” available by default on OSX?
Disclaimer: OSX newbie here.
Probably the closest analog would be distributed notifications (or notifications for same-process communication). It’s not a perfect analog, but it fits into roughly the same niche. You can read more about it in Apple’s Notification Programming Topics, particularly the part about the distributed notification center.