Bug? org.freedesktop.DBus no longer has unique name :1.0

[Simon McVittie]

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 at 17:28:29 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> I don't remember this change going in but GetNameOwner on
> 'org.freedesktop.DBus' returns 'org.freedesktop.DBus'.  This special
> case breaks the assumption that unique names start with a colon so
> client code needs to handle this instead of handling generic unique
> names. Even some of our internal API such as GetConnectionUnixProcessID
> does not support the org.freedesktop.DBus special case.

dbus-python's dbus.bus module considers org.freedesktop.DBus to be a
unique name, for this reason. Also, it's not as if its ownership can
change, so we might as well always consider it to be a unique name...

	Simon
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