Well, there's dbus. On the other hand if you want a function and not protocol, why would you care what protocol it uses? It might as well be a file. When you ca

Well, there's dbus. On the other hand if you want a function and not protocol, why would you care what protocol it uses? It might as well be a file. When you call getaddrinfo("localhost"), it reads /etc/hosts - a text file.