dbus_connection_send_with_reply() shouldn't return TRUE on a disconnected connection

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Apr 17 23:51:00 PDT 2009


Lennart Poettering wrote:
>The reason I was looking at this is that I am hacking unix fd passing
>support into dbus. Now, i'd like to make
>dbus_connection_send_with_reply() and friends fail if you try to send
>a DBusMessage that includes unix fds on a connection that doesn't
>support sending fds. Question is in absence of a seperate DBusError
>parameter what's the best way to handle this? Return TRUE? Return
>FALSE?

I'd say the proper way, given the circumstances now, is that you should 
accept the message (return TRUE) then synthesise an error and post it, 
just like the Disconnected error handling.

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