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| author | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2016-11-22 11:46:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2016-11-22 19:02:20 +0000 |
| commit | 8cb719417627c70b6c08bc2216069fa849cf0c98 (patch) | |
| tree | 56f086f16f495d1656c8ed034b98a2c125ba8352 /doc | |
| parent | 55cb2e7a48fa4ec0e9e64eafb6aa997ef2d479e6 (diff) | |
| download | dbus-8cb719417627c70b6c08bc2216069fa849cf0c98.tar.gz | |
Spec: be clearer about "starting" and "activation" being synonyms
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98671
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-specification.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml index 9f1527b6..4e8c0742 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml @@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@ <para> Unless a message has the flag <literal>NO_AUTO_START</literal>, if the destination name does not exist then a program to own the destination - name will be started before the message is delivered. See + name will be started (activated) before the message is delivered. See <xref linkend="message-bus-starting-services"/>. The message will be held until the new program is successfully started or has @@ -4994,8 +4994,13 @@ </para> <para> - In D-Bus, starting a service is normally done by - <firstterm>auto-starting</firstterm>, which is one form of activation. + <firstterm>Starting a service</firstterm> should be read as synonymous + with service activation. + </para> + + <para> + In D-Bus, service activation is normally done by + <firstterm>auto-starting</firstterm>. In auto-starting, applications send a message to a particular well-known name, such as <literal>com.example.TextEditor1</literal>, without specifying the |