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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2011-05-17 17:05:39 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2011-05-17 17:05:39 +0100
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Formally define a unique connection name and a well-known bus name
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<title>Bus names</title>
<para>
Connections have one or more bus names associated with them.
- A connection has exactly one bus name that is a unique connection
- name. The unique connection name remains with the connection for
- its entire lifetime.
+ A connection has exactly one bus name that is a <firstterm>unique
+ connection name</firstterm>. The unique connection name remains
+ with the connection for its entire lifetime.
A bus name is of type <literal>STRING</literal>,
meaning that it must be valid UTF-8. However, there are also
some additional restrictions that apply to bus names
specifically:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Bus names that start with a colon (':')
- character are unique connection names.
+ character are unique connection names. Other bus names
+ are called <firstterm>well-known bus names</firstterm>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Bus names are composed of 1 or more elements separated by