Unix FD Passing

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Apr 25 10:19:36 PDT 2009


Havoc Pennington wrote:
>http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol
>-handling-invalid "In the authentication protocol (see the section
> called
>“Authentication Protocol”) unknown commands result in an ERROR rather
>than a disconnect. This enables future extensions to the protocol."

Right.

But I (and I imagine most other people) read that as extension to the 
authentication protocol. As in supporting new authentication methods, etc.

The brilliant solution is to negotiate extension to the D-Bus protocol and 
features.

-- 
  Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
    PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
    E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/attachments/20090425/0a007592/attachment.pgp 


More information about the dbus mailing list