Missing spec pieces (Was Re: [PATCH] client configuration file support)

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Fri Jun 11 08:32:32 PDT 2010


David Zeuthen schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:
>   
>> yes, by using approbiate protocols like nonce-tcp: and autolaunch: on
>> windows.
>> nonce-tcp procotol uses a user specific secrect file located in users
>> directory tree.
>> The autolaunch protocol uses a well known shared memory segment to determine
>> the real used address.
>>     
>
> Yes, I found that out by reading the source code when I was
> reimplementing this in the gdbus implemetation of D-Bus (that does not
> use any code from libdbus-1). See e.g.
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdbus-win32.png
>
> I don't recall anything about "autolaunch:" being an allowed address.
> Please clarify. Also, all this (the shared memory segment details like
> name and also semantics) really ought to be in the spec. 
>
> Any chance you (I'm assuming you wrote it) can prepare a patch for this?
>   
I did not wrote the initial implementation, but because I'm currently 
preparing a windows specific autolaunch extension I can also fix the 
autolaunch spec.

Ralf



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