[systemd-devel] Questions regarding dbus started via systemd --user

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Tue Feb 3 03:52:07 PST 2015


On 02/02/15 22:47, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Well, I mean, we only ever put this altogether for kdbus, where
> systemd itself is the one setting up the bus. But yeah, if you want to
> make this all work with dbus-daemon, then you would have to teach it
> bus activation support. Most likely that should be really easy, and
> just involves also installing a dbus.socket and dbus.service into the
> user unit dir.

It is this easy, and I do think dbus should support this model, as I 
outlined in a longer mail on Friday. 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61301 (reviews welcome).

The harder part is getting environment variables pushed around, for 
which I don't have a complete patch yet (but I'm going to work on that 
within the next couple of weeks).

     S

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