DBus 1.1.4 and weird message handling

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 16:36:55 Ross Burton wrote:
> Aside from the point that notify messages should be signals, this means
> that every gconf-using application was getting the messages intended for
> the server.  I've fixed this by adding "member='Notify'" and that
> appears to work, but as to how this worked on DBus 1.0 is a very good
> question...
>
> Did messages sent to named services only get sent there, instead of
> everyone who was listening?  I'm also wondering if the bus sniffing
> fixes have led to more clients getting messages.

Eavesdropping was probably disabled in 1.0 but is allowed in 1.1. That's how 
you're getting messages that you're not usually entitled to.

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