dbus/doc dbus-specification.xml,1.48,1.49

Simon McVittie smcv at kemper.freedesktop.org
Fri May 4 13:28:15 EEST 2007


Update of /cvs/dbus/dbus/doc
In directory kemper:/tmp/cvs-serv19992/doc

Modified Files:
	dbus-specification.xml 
Log Message:
doc/dbus-specification.xml: mention the reserved o.fd.DBus.Local interface
and the corresponding /o/fd/DBus/Local object path; describe them as reserved
and forbid using them in a sent message, mentioning that in the reference
implementation this will cause the connection to be dropped.
Patch approved by Havoc.


Index: dbus-specification.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/dbus/dbus/doc/dbus-specification.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.48
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -d -r1.48 -r1.49
--- dbus-specification.xml	15 Nov 2006 01:52:01 -0000	1.48
+++ dbus-specification.xml	4 May 2007 10:28:12 -0000	1.49
@@ -921,8 +921,13 @@
                   <entry>1</entry>
                   <entry><literal>OBJECT_PATH</literal></entry>
                   <entry><literal>METHOD_CALL</literal>, <literal>SIGNAL</literal></entry>
-                  <entry>The object to send a call to, 
+                  <entry>The object to send a call to,
                     or the object a signal is emitted from.
+                    The special path
+                    <literal>/org/freedesktop/DBus/Local</literal> is reserved;
+                    implementations should not send messages with this path,
+                    and the reference implementation of the bus daemon will
+                    disconnect any application that attempts to do so.
                   </entry>
                 </row>
                 <row>
@@ -934,6 +939,12 @@
                     The interface to invoke a method call on, or 
                     that a signal is emitted from. Optional for 
                     method calls, required for signals.
+                    The special interface
+                    <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Local</literal> is reserved;
+                    implementations should not send messages with this
+                    interface, and the reference implementation of the bus
+                    daemon will disconnect any application that attempts to
+                    do so.
                   </entry>
                 </row>
                 <row>



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