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@@ -33,21 +33,9 @@ Important for 1.0 - dbus-pending-call.c has some API and thread safety issues to review - - make dbus_connection_open() return a shared connection from a pool. - Add dbus_connection_open_private() that works like the current one. - To do this, each DBusServer could have a 128-bit GUID. This GUID - would be in the address from dbus_server_get_address(). On - connection to a server, the GUID would be provided as the first - thing in the auth protocol, and verified vs. the expected GUID if a - GUID was in the address used to connect. A hash from GUID to - connection would be kept, so attempts to connect to a GUID already - in the hash would return a shared existing connection. - - The purpose of all this is to allow a dbus_g_proxy_to_string() that - would convert the proxy to an "IOR" and dbus_g_proxy_from_string() - that would decode; using these, dbus-glib users could avoid - DBusConnection entirely. Of course the same applies to other kinds - of binding. + - transmit GUID from server to client in the auth protocol, so + connections can be shared even if the address used to connect + to them didn't have a GUID in it. Important for 1.0 GLib Bindings === @@ -74,6 +62,13 @@ Might as Well for 1.0 Can Be Post 1.0 === + - Allow a dbus_g_proxy_to_string()/g_object_to_string() that + would convert the proxy to an "IOR" and dbus_g_proxy_from_string() + that would decode; using these, dbus-glib users could avoid + DBusConnection entirely. Of course the same applies to other kinds + of binding. This would use dbus_connection_open()'s connection-sharing + feature to avoid massive proliferation of connections. + - DBusWatchList/TimeoutList duplicate a lot of code, as do protected_change_watch/protected_change_timeout in dbus-connection.c and dbus-server.c. This could all be mopped up, cut-and-paste |