Bug 58601

Summary:	Formal spec for launchd
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Daniel Macks <dmacks>
Component:	core	Assignee:	D-Bus Maintainers <dbus>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	D-Bus Maintainers <dbus>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	niederstrasser, zeuthen
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	love, NEEDINFO
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Daniel Macks 2012-12-21 05:30:11 UTC

Bug #14259 was closed when launchd support got committed (yay thank you!!!). However, the underlying methodology it uses was never added to the formal dbus spec. So I'm raising Comment #87 from there here as a specific request: please document it.

In particular, there's a glib feature-request waiting for it, whose
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690523 notes:

>We need to get it into the spec in the "Well-known
>Message Bus Instances" chapter, this one
>
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-bus-types
>
>E.g. the same way there's an "X Windowing System" chapter explaining what atoms
>to look at (the stuff involving _DBUS_SESSION_BUS_SELECTION_), there needs to
>be a "Max OS X" chapter explaining exactly how to get the address.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2016-09-23 13:37:28 UTC

The D-Bus maintainers are unlikely to document a Mac-specific transport, because none of us are Mac users.

If you understand this transport, please document it.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-10-12 21:15:15 UTC

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