Issue with _dbus_write_socket on windows

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Sun Nov 19 10:27:26 PST 2006


Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>> Havoc Pennington schrieb:
>>>> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>>>> Thx, for the hints. Now the daemon is started on demand and adress is
>>>>> read from shared memory.
>>>> How did you go about making it per-user instead of per-machine?
>>>>
>>> Currently this is not supported, but I think it should be possible by
>>> adding a userid or something else to the shm name.
>> My .02, I don't think this is a "would be nice" feature - it's pretty
>> essential to dbus working right.
> 
> We now append the uid to our global locks.
> 

we already have a 2-way mapping between dbus_uid_t and SID

>>> But the bigger
>>> problem is - how can I avoid using the same port twice? And how can I
>>> react when the port is already in use?
>>>
>> I already mentioned that in another mail - you may need to write a new
>> DBusTransport variant that uses named pipes or Windows messages. That
>> would be cleaner and faster anyway. Or figure out how to define the TCP
>> stuff, I'm not sure how the X server defines it if there are multiple X
>> servers, but it could work in the same way perhaps.
>>
> 
> and we could get a free port from the os. :)
> 
>> Havoc
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Peter Kümmel


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