Connection dropped with extended ascii strings

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 11:34:56 Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:10 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > See also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16338
>
> The idea of a library calling _exit() on behalf of an application just
> like that is really, really horrible.

The reason is that most applications using D-Bus are tied to the session 
they're running on. And, given normal operating circumstances, the connection 
only drops when the session exits.

So the application should exit too. The default is to call _exit so that, if 
you want to disable that behaviour, you'll be reminded to implement your own 
exiting procedures.

> But that does not seem to be the 
> case any more, though?

No. You're being forcibly disconnected by the bus because you sent an invalid 
message. To protect the rest of the applications from malicious and invalid 
messages (and also to get your attention, like it has done), it kicks you off 
the bus.

Like I said above, under *normal* operating circumstances, you only get 
disconnected if the session is exiting. By normal, I'm excluding:

	* daemon crashes and bugs
	* user stupidly killing the process
	* invalid messages you're sending
	* distributions restarting the system daemon on upgrade

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