From d3440ebe9de8ac9f817ae992244463c197c20f84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Havoc Pennington Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:29:58 +0000 Subject: 2006-10-30 Havoc Pennington * tools/dbus-launch.1, doc/TODO: capture intent to change the command line options of dbus-launch a bit post 1.0 --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/TODO | 5 +++++ tools/dbus-launch.1 | 8 +++++++- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7e5458b1..4842a13b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-10-30 Havoc Pennington + + * 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 * 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" -- cgit