[direwolf20]

What do you connect to, when you connect to varlink, if there is no broker service?

[ahartmetz]

It's kinda weird to present this as a DBus alternative when it doesn't even offer the same facilities, particularly many-to-many communication.

Though I have a pretty good idea of where a Varlink broker would turn up and which init system it would be tied to.

[direwolf20]

Very typical systemd–developer style.

[gnoack]

Those are pathname UNIX domain sockets, so you address them through the socket file, which is conventionally stored somewhere under /run.

You can run "netstat --listening --unix" to list the UNIX domain servers on your system, to get an impression.

See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/unix.7.html

[direwolf20]

And what does the socket connect to?