DBus issue on Windows

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Sat Jun 11 11:25:05 PDT 2011


On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 at 10:41:08 +0800, Vincent Zhang wrote:
> After digging the code,
> I found it is the dbus daemon mutex issue: dbus daemon uses a shared
> memory file store the bus address and uses a mutex protect it, but the
> mutex is used incorrectly:

Could you open a bug on bugs.freedesktop.org, please? Patches would also be
welcome.

> 2. There is another issue about session
> bus default address. DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS, deduced in
> configure.ac, is not exported to config.h, so the default session
> bus address used in dbus lib maybe inconsistent with the one in
> session.conf

D-Bus on Windows with autotools isn't amazingly well tested; again, bug
reports and patches welcome.

    S


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