Clarification on some bus behaviour

Will Thompson will.thompson at collabora.co.uk
Wed Sep 8 05:19:57 PDT 2010


On 08/09/10 13:02, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Thank you. I'd say apply the patch.

Done. Time to figure out how to update the spec on the website.

>> I guess you need to verify that incoming messages from the daemon really
>> are from the daemon; but if so, I think it would be better for everyone
>> if we mandated the reference implementation's behaviour.
>
> I don't need to verify that incoming messages from the daemon are from the
> daemon. I need a way of telling apart an incoming message from the daemon from
> a message coming from somewhere else.
>
> Each message has a sender field. I just need to know what to expect in this
> field.

Well, again this would be easier if the reference implementation's 
behaviour was mandatory, as dbus-python assumes it is.

-- 
Will


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