I didn't mention those because in theory a lot of that could be done by the library, or done by the daemon before passing off the fd for a peer-to-peer connecti

I didn't mention those because in theory a lot of that could be done by the library, or done by the daemon before passing off the fd for a peer-to-peer connection. (If a connection dies, the library would transparently handle that by sending a request back to the daemon for another connection, etc) But of course another thing that having a message bus allows you to do is reduce the amount of fds that a client has to poll on to just one for the bus socket.