Question on service activation

[Thiago Macieira]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> - we need to make sure nobody else can hijack the name and claim to be
> the application the desktop would have launched.

The only way to do that (and to solve the other problem you described 
before) is for that application (or a stub thereof) to actually be 
launched early on during the desktop initialisation sequence. It's like a 
DNS domain name: the only way for you to be sure that no one will 
register the domain you want is to actually register it before anyone 
else does so.

D-Bus cannot know which application it is that is requesting a name. All 
it knows are sockets.

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