D-BUS broadcast messages

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Apr 13 10:44:40 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:56, Timo Teräs wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've bumped into inconsistency relating D-BUS broadcast messages. This is 
> basically the same problem saroj panda already noticed and reported in mail 
> dated Fri Mar 19 21:32:37 2004.
> 
> The thing is that D-BUS specification says all broadcast messages should be 
> sent to special service org.freedesktop.DBus.Broadcast. However, quick 
> grepping of D-BUS sources would indicate that this service receives no 
> special treatment. Instead messages with no destination service are treated 
> as broadcast messages.
> 
> So the current code and specification on the web are in contradiction. It'd 
> be good to have the specs updated or the code fixed.
> 

Essentially broadcast messages were replaced by signals, yep. Spec needs
fixing...

Havoc





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