Attachment 49050 Details for Bug 39197 – [PATCH 5/5] Document that dbus-launch is not dbus-run-as-session

[patch] [PATCH 5/5] Document that dbus-launch is not dbus-run-as-session

0005-Document-that-dbus-launch-is-not-dbus-run-as-session.patch (text/plain), 1.16 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2011-07-13 09:38:51 UTC

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>From dc6ca6aa4b1babf01272e66e4082649e31d20b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
>Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:35:38 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Document that dbus-launch is not dbus-run-as-session
>
>Architectural assumptions inside dbus-launch mean that it is unsuitable
>for use in contexts where a particular process's lifetime defines the
>session, unless there is an out-of-band mechanism (like the X server)
>which can signal the end of the session.
>---
> doc/dbus-launch.1 |   13 +++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/doc/dbus-launch.1 b/doc/dbus-launch.1
>index 6e1a08f..ee0c804 100644
>--- a/doc/dbus-launch.1
>+++ b/doc/dbus-launch.1
>@@ -205,6 +205,19 @@ Emit Bourne-shell compatible code to set up environment variables.
> .I "--version"
> Print the version of dbus-launch
> 
>+.SH NOTES
>+
>+If you run
>+.B "dbus-launch myapp"
>+(with any other options), dbus-daemon will
>+.I not
>+exit when
>+.B myapp
>+terminates: this is because
>+.B myapp
>+is assumed to be part of a larger session, rather than a session in its
>+own right.
>+
> .SH AUTHOR
> See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/doc/AUTHORS
> 
>-- 
>1.7.5.4
>

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