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authorHavoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>2006-10-30 06:29:58 +0000
committerHavoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>2006-10-30 06:29:58 +0000
commitd3440ebe9de8ac9f817ae992244463c197c20f84 (patch)
treee0aed6766dd13224f875e64384a48279f3a3691d
parentabfdfb2dfb2f2f0317856083dcf6ca71b271c9b9 (diff)
2006-10-30 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* tools/dbus-launch.1, doc/TODO: capture intent to change the command line options of dbus-launch a bit post 1.0
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/TODO5
-rw-r--r--tools/dbus-launch.18
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7e5458b1..4842a13b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-10-30 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
+
+ * tools/dbus-launch.1, doc/TODO: capture intent to change the
+ command line options of dbus-launch a bit post 1.0
+
2006-10-27 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* dbus/dbus-connection.c (dbus_connection_open_private): document
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index c9849e1d..ace86872 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ Might as Well for 1.0
Can Be Post 1.0
===
+
+ - revamp dbus-launch a bit,
+ see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-October/005906.html
+ for some thoughts.
+
- clean up the creds issue on *BSD's in dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c.
They should work as is but we need to rearange it to make it
clearer which method is being used. configure.in should
diff --git a/tools/dbus-launch.1 b/tools/dbus-launch.1
index bcc30d7c..68adb2ca 100644
--- a/tools/dbus-launch.1
+++ b/tools/dbus-launch.1
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="something:,autolaunch:" - in that case if
the first address doesn't work, processes will autolaunch. (The bus
address variable contains a comma-separated list of addresses to try.)
+.PP
+The --autolaunch option is considered an internal implementation
+detail of libdbus, and in fact there are plans to change it. There's
+no real reason to use it outside of the libdbus implementation anyhow.
+
.SH OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
.TP
@@ -152,7 +157,8 @@ This option implies that \fIdbus-launch\fP should scan for a
previously-started session and reuse the values found there. If no
session is found, it will start a new session. The
\-\-exit-with-session option is implied if \-\-autolaunch is given.
-This option is used by libdbus, you probably do not want to use it manually.
+This option is for the exclusive use of libdbus, you do not want to
+use it manually. It may change in the future.
.TP
.I "--sh-syntax"