Unix FD Passing

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 20.05.09 18:13, Havoc Pennington (hp at pobox.com) wrote:

> Signals don't generate replies from each recipient, so that won't come
> up, just as it does not cause an error if there are apps on the bus
> that are not allowed to get the signal due to security policy.
> 
> This can be handled exactly as with the security policy stuff afaict.
> Error replies only arise when a reply would be sent in the first
> place, which means only for method calls sent explicitly
> (eavesdrop=false)
> 
> > I don't think this would be beneficial.
> >
> 
> Silent fail when a reply was requested/expected is just wrong. The
> method call sender would time out otherwise, which is sucky and makes
> debugging pretty annoying.
> 
> It's very easy to just make this work nicely.

Ok, convinced. 

http://git.0pointer.de/?p=dbus.git;a=commit;h=fea0f1037fb051f1c3519a9d031396caecab943c

Lennart

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