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| author | Chengwei Yang <chengwei.yang@intel.com> | 2013-12-10 10:06:23 +0800 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2014-01-06 16:08:52 +0000 |
| commit | a77f64d5e1b411b14a6768d63a2c677ae064a256 (patch) | |
| tree | babc6c1f670b5d5e1e37bf8a9229a3b57bfb7cc4 /doc | |
| parent | 7628af5924dc4359e8f1334070310aabf3901ada (diff) | |
| download | dbus-a77f64d5e1b411b14a6768d63a2c677ae064a256.tar.gz | |
dbus-daemon(1): align document about "bind" with DBus Spec
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72301
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in index 1a1e42cd..7b7f4a1b 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in +++ b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in @@ -392,12 +392,13 @@ DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is set.</para> <para>Example: <listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0</listen></para> -<para>tcp addresses also allow a bind=hostname option, which will override -the host option specifying what address to bind to, without changing -the address reported by the bus. The bind option can also take a -special name '*' to cause the bus to listen on all local address -(INADDR_ANY). The specified host should be a valid name of the local -machine or weird stuff will happen.</para> +<para>tcp/nonce-tcp addresses also allow a bind=hostname option, +used in a listenable address to configure the interface on which +the server will listen: either the hostname is the IP address of +one of the local machine's interfaces (most commonly 127.0.0.1), +or a DNS name that resolves to one of those IP addresses, or '*' +to listen on all interfaces simultaneously. If not specified, +the default is the same value as "host".</para> <para>Example: <listen>tcp:host=localhost,bind=*,port=0</listen></para> |