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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2011-07-21 17:02:47 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2011-07-29 16:32:03 +0100
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parent713f31fae59bb9f4a9c1a90bf93047bae7419eba (diff)
downloaddbus-7afd5e97ce1c4fbd9e86d9e852e9385aa000619a.tar.gz
spec: mention that buses may have a security policy, but leave it implementation-specific
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39450 Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
index 05837715..7c04984f 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
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@@ -3877,6 +3877,14 @@
expected to reply to the ping.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Message bus implementations may impose a security policy which
+ prevents certain messages from being sent or received.
+ When a message cannot be sent or received due to a security
+ policy, the message bus should send an error reply, unless the
+ original message had the <literal>NO_REPLY</literal> flag.
+ </para>
+
<sect3 id="message-bus-routing-eavesdropping">
<title>Eavesdropping</title>
<para>