How to use dbus as the IPC sync method in different IPC namespace

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Wed Jan 4 08:42:16 PST 2012


On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 at 07:42:04 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> actually it uses path-based Unix sockets for at least the system bus
> (even on Linux). Otherwise you have a serious security issue with
> ownership permissions of the socket.

Yes, true. For completeness, what I described is the default behaviour of a
session bus, while the system bus uses path-based Unix sockets, or is
unsupported on non-Unix.

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