autolaunch uuid support
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Sun Oct 1 16:10:03 PDT 2006
Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> - an implied option --use-existing means try to read an existing bus
>> from in order 1) DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS 2) the display
>> and prefer these to launching a new bus. libdbus
>> may need to unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS before
>> exec'ing dbus-launch.
>
> Why would it need to unset? I don't get it.
>
My thought was that if the session bus address is "autolaunch:" (or
"foobar:,autolaunch:" then in resolving autolaunch: libdbus should
launch a new bus (or read from the X selection) rather than just return
"foobar:,autolaunch:" again.
Not sure how all the details work out though.
Havoc
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