Question on service activation

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 23 February 2007 01:07, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

We are getting to the limits of the analogy.
You will still own a DNS name if your webserver is down, because a registrar 
will only allow you to change the name -> address mapping.

The idea to start relays or proxies early on might work though.

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

Right, so that is not an option.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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