+ * Returns the unique ID of the server, as a newly-allocated
+ * string which must be freed by the caller. This ID is
+ * normally used by clients to tell when two #DBusConnection
+ * would be equivalent (because the server address passed
+ * to dbus_connection_open() will have the same guid in the
+ * two cases). dbus_connection_open() can re-use an existing
+ * connection with the same ID instead of opening a new
+ * connection.
+ *
+ * This is an ID unique to each #DBusServer. Remember that
+ * a #DBusServer represents only one mode of connecting,
+ * so e.g. a bus daemon can listen on multiple addresses
+ * which will mean it has multiple #DBusServer each with
+ * their own ID.
+ *
+ * The ID is not a UUID in the sense of RFC4122; the details
+ * are explained in the D-Bus specification.
+ *
+ * @param server the server
+ * @returns the id of the server or #NULL if no memory
+ */
+char*
+dbus_server_get_id (DBusServer *server)
+{
+ char *retval;
+
+ _dbus_return_val_if_fail (server != NULL, NULL);
+
+ SERVER_LOCK (server);
+ retval = NULL;
+ _dbus_string_copy_data (&server->guid_hex, &retval);
+ SERVER_UNLOCK (server);
+
+ return retval;
+}
+
+/**