Details vs Match On Args

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:23 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> I've been thinking about it a bit and I think we need to do a match on
> arguments instead of details.
> 
> So it has been discussed adding filtering of messages based on
> arguments.  We were either going to go with this or the details patch
> sent awhile ago to deal with signals waking up threads because matching
> was not granular enough [1].
> 
> In my opinion I think we need to match on args to be more flexible and
> also add wildcard matching.  The reason I want to do this is so a
> program can watch for specific names coming on the bus without getting
> deluged by all the names that attach to the bus.  The wildcard matching
> would be for listening for specific namespaces such as listening for all
> names that start with org.freedesktop.* (more compelling would be
> org.gnome.Service.*).

I think the wildcard stuff is overkill (and potentially has weird side
effects). Basically the namespace doesn't imply anything necessarily
about the stuff in the namespace.

Havoc