dbus-launch and the fish shell

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2012 23.04.16, ridiculous_fish wrote:
> My question is, what consequences are likely if the login shell fails to
> understand the shell code emitted by dbus-launch? How could I go about
> reproducing those issues for testing? I haven't been able to reproduce any
> problems by just farting around in openSUSE - I know almost nothing about
> dbus.

In the second best case scenario, the variables will simply not be set 
correctly. The side-effect of that is that the applications will not know how 
to contact the bus server. If you're running a graphical system with X, that 
problem is hidden by the fact that D-Bus also supports finding the server on 
its own, via some X selections and window properties.

But the worst case scenario is that the "eval `dbus-launch`" or equivalent 
command makes the login fail due to syntactically-incorrect commands.
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