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| author | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2012-02-07 17:43:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2012-06-15 13:10:41 +0100 |
| commit | e9762e1542449601ff23b0c5fc8d6764e0898d3f (patch) | |
| tree | 4a2884fef184cf51c7b2a8ddbe46ead9d98f1702 /doc | |
| parent | ba433723f79c7a69e7107ae5818ecd869aeb4d33 (diff) | |
| download | dbus-e9762e1542449601ff23b0c5fc8d6764e0898d3f.tar.gz | |
Document that dbus-launch is not dbus-run-session
Architectural assumptions inside dbus-launch mean that it is unsuitable
for use in contexts where a particular process's lifetime defines the
session, unless there is an out-of-band mechanism (like the X server)
which can signal the end of the session.
Reviewed-by: Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39197
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-launch.1 b/doc/dbus-launch.1 index 1707f3d3..4902b40a 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-launch.1 +++ b/doc/dbus-launch.1 @@ -204,6 +204,19 @@ Emit Bourne\-shell compatible code to set up environment variables. .I "\-\-version" Print the version of dbus\-launch +.SH NOTES + +If you run +.B "dbus\-launch myapp" +(with any other options), dbus\-daemon will +.I not +exit when +.B myapp +terminates: this is because +.B myapp +is assumed to be part of a larger session, rather than a session in its +own right. + .SH AUTHOR See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/doc/AUTHORS |