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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