diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/dbus-cleanup-sockets.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/dbus-cleanup-sockets.1 | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/dbus-cleanup-sockets.1 b/tools/dbus-cleanup-sockets.1 index e093ab0f..ca669f49 100644 --- a/tools/dbus-cleanup-sockets.1 +++ b/tools/dbus-cleanup-sockets.1 @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ dbus-cleanup-sockets \- clean up leftover sockets in a directory .SH DESCRIPTION -The \fIdbus-cleanup-sockets\fP command cleans up sockets used for -D-Bus connections. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for +The \fIdbus-cleanup-sockets\fP command cleans up unused D-Bus +connection sockets. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about the big picture. .PP @@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ in the standard default socket directory for the per-user-login-session message bus; this is usually /tmp. Optionally, you can pass a different directory on the command line. +.PP +On Linux, this program is essentially useless, because D-Bus defaults +to using "abstract sockets" that exist only in memory and don't have a +corresponding file in /tmp. + +.PP +On most other flavors of UNIX, it's possible for the socket files to +leak when programs using D-Bus exit abnormally or without closing +their D-Bus connections. Thus, it might be interesting to run +dbus-cleanup-sockets in a cron job to mop up any leaked sockets. +Or you can just ignore the leaked sockets, they aren't really hurting +anything, other than cluttering the output of "ls /tmp" + .SH AUTHOR dbus-cleanup-sockets was adapted by Havoc Pennington from linc-cleanup-sockets written by Michael Meeks. |