[PATCH] dbus-glib patches

[Rob Taylor]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:58 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote:
>> I was more concerned about documenting that the bus daemon also has a 
>> timeout for method calls, defaulting to 25 seconds, so no matter whet 
>> you set in this function, if your method takes more than 25 seconds an 
>> error will be returned to the caller.
> 
> No, the bus timeout is around six hours or so.

No, we're both wrong, its 5 minutes (bus/config_parser.c:434)

> (And if you couldn't do method calls of longer than 25 seconds D-Bus
> would be completely useless for non-trivial applications.)
> 
> And it's still a complete mystery to me why the bus timeout is there;
> FWIW, I consider it a bug that should be fixed along with treating
> timeout==INT_MAX as special to avoid silly 49.52 earth day wrap around
> issues (because 31 bits is all we use for millisecond timeout).

Agreed, I don't understand why the timeout is there.

> (Btw, there's another bug in the bus daemon and/or libdbus; it uses wall
> clock for accounting purposes meaning that time doesn't stand still
> while the system is e.g. suspended or hibernated. On Linux you want to
> use the 19th entry of /proc/$pid/stat to avoid this (or similar
> constructs). Also, if the clock currently used by the bus daemon isn't
> monotonically increasing some people may call this a security bug too.)

+1

Thanks,
Rob

>      David
> 
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