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diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.sgml b/doc/dbus-specification.sgml index da1d07a1..476d0afe 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-specification.sgml +++ b/doc/dbus-specification.sgml @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ ]> <article id="index"> <artheader> - <title>D-BUS Protocol Specification</title> - <releaseinfo>Version 0.4</releaseinfo> - <date>17 February 2003</date> + <title>D-BUS Specification</title> + <releaseinfo>Version 0.7</releaseinfo> + <date>26 March 2003</date> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Havoc</firstname> @@ -422,10 +422,11 @@ <sect1 id="auth-protocol"> <title>Authentication Protocol</title> <para> - Before the flow of messages begins, two applications - must authenticate. A simple text protocol is used - for authentication; this protocol is a SASL profile, - and maps fairly directly from the SASL specification. + Before the flow of messages begins, two applications must + authenticate. A simple plain-text protocol is used for + authentication; this protocol is a SASL profile, and maps fairly + directly from the SASL specification. The message encoding is + NOT used here, only plain text messages. </para> <para> In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client and @@ -1309,13 +1310,16 @@ </informaltable> </para> <para> - Before an application is able to send messages to other applications it - must send the <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Hello</literal> - message to the message bus service. If an application tries to send - a message to another application, or a message to the message bus - service that isn't the - <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Hello</literal> message, it will - be disconnected from the bus. + Before an application is able to send messages to other + applications it must send the + <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Hello</literal> message to the + message bus service. If an application tries to send a + message to another application, or a message to the message + bus service that isn't the + <literal>org.freedesktop.DBus.Hello</literal> message, it + will be disconnected from the bus. If a client wishes to + disconnect from the bus, it just has to disconnect from the + transport used. No de-registration message is necessary. </para> <para> The reply message contains the name of the application's base service. |