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David Zeuthen 5e948ff7cd 2005-11-14 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Patch from Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>.

        * bus/bus.c: I've recently investigated why the automatic reload
        of configuration files does not work as expected.

        Currently, reloading configuration files does only work when
        running dbus-daemon with --nodaemon.  If we are running as daemon
        we're hitting a dnotify bug once we fork the process.

        We're initializing the dnotify fds before calling fork().  Once
        the child process forked it does still have the fds (and they
        still show up in /proc/`pidof dbus-daemon`/fd/) but we're not
        getting SIGIO as changes are made to the configuration files.

        The attached patch moves the initialization of the dnotify fds to
        process_config_postinit().  This is safe for all current code
        paths and solves the dnotify disfunction.  If we're running
        dbus-daemon as daemon the fds for dnotify are now being
        initialized after fork() for the child process.

        * configure.in: The current configure.in check for dnotify probes
        'x$target_os' for being 'xlinux-gnu'.  I've changed the check to
        match for 'xlinux', too. Additionally I have adapted the configure
        option's style to match with the others.
2005-11-14 20:51:25 +00:00
bus 2005-11-14 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> 2005-11-14 20:51:25 +00:00
dbus Cleanups 2005-10-27 16:35:43 +00:00
doc Add a NoReply annotation 2005-10-25 08:54:57 +00:00
gcj * Released 0.50 2005-09-06 22:38:54 +00:00
glib 2005-10-29 Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org> 2005-10-29 17:02:58 +00:00
mono 2005-09-08 Joe Shaw <joeshaw@novell.com> 2005-09-08 18:54:42 +00:00
python 2005-11-14 Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org> 2005-11-14 02:53:30 +00:00
qt bring Qt3 library back. Some apps that are not in the KDE trunk are using it. 2005-09-30 15:20:08 +00:00
qt3 bring Qt3 library back. Some apps that are not in the KDE trunk are using it. 2005-09-30 15:20:08 +00:00
test 2005-11-14 Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org> 2005-11-14 02:53:30 +00:00
tools 2005-10-29 Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org> 2005-10-29 17:02:58 +00:00
.cvsignore 2003-02-16 Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com> 2003-02-16 07:20:54 +00:00
acinclude.m4 2003-09-21 Seth Nickell <seth@gnome.org> 2003-09-22 05:45:59 +00:00
AUTHORS * bus/driver.c (bus_driver_handle_reload_config): Make sure we send an 2005-11-07 21:57:13 +00:00
autogen.sh 2005-01-30 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> 2005-01-31 02:55:12 +00:00
ChangeLog 2005-11-14 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> 2005-11-14 20:51:25 +00:00
configure.in 2005-11-14 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> 2005-11-14 20:51:25 +00:00
COPYING 2004-08-09 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> 2004-08-10 03:07:01 +00:00
dbus-1.pc.in * Integrate patches from Lennart Poettering <mzsqb at 0pointer.de>: 2005-09-26 18:49:53 +00:00
dbus-glib-1.pc.in 2003-06-22 Anders Carlsson <andersca@codefactory.se> 2003-06-22 06:53:42 +00:00
dbus-sharp.pc.in Remove glib-sharp from Libs flag. 2004-06-10 12:55:28 +00:00
Doxyfile.in 2004-06-02 Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> 2004-06-02 13:13:14 +00:00
HACKING * News: Update 0.32 2005-03-29 18:27:35 +00:00
INSTALL initial import of "dbus" skeleton 2002-11-21 16:41:33 +00:00
Makefile.am bring Qt3 library back. Some apps that are not in the KDE trunk are using it. 2005-09-30 15:20:08 +00:00
Makefile.cvs Match kde schematics 2003-11-23 08:07:04 +00:00
NEWS * Released 0.50 2005-09-06 22:38:54 +00:00
README add a couple of notes about libdbus vs. bindings 2004-08-10 02:18:37 +00:00
update-dbus-docs.sh 2005-01-21 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> 2005-01-21 06:18:04 +00:00

D-BUS is a simple IPC library based on messages.

See also the file HACKING for notes of interest to developers working on D-BUS.

See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for lots of documentation, 
mailing lists, etc.

Note
===

A core concept of the D-BUS implementation is that "libdbus" is
intended to be a low-level API, similar to Xlib. Most programmers are
intended to use the bindings to GLib, Qt, Python, Mono, Java, or
whatever. These bindings have varying levels of completeness.

Configuration flags
===

These are the dbus-specific configuration flags that can be given to
the ./configure program.

  --enable-qt      enable Qt-friendly client library
  --enable-glib    enable GLib-friendly client library
  --enable-mono    enable mono bindings
  --enable-mono-docs build mono documentation (requires monodoc)
  --enable-tests   enable unit test code
  --enable-ansi    enable -ansi -pedantic gcc flags
  --enable-verbose-mode support verbose debug mode
  --enable-asserts include assertion checks
  --enable-checks  include sanity checks on public API
  --enable-docs    build documentation (requires Doxygen and jade)
  --enable-gcov    compile with coverage profiling instrumentation (gcc only)
  --enable-python  build python bindings (reqires Pyrex >= 0.9)

  --with-xml=libxml/expat           XML library to use
  --with-init-scripts=redhat        Style of init scripts to install
  --with-session-socket-dir=dirname Where to put sockets for the per-login-session message bus
  --with-test-socket-dir=dirname    Where to put sockets for make check
  --with-system-pid-file=pidfile    PID file for systemwide daemon
  --with-system-socket=filename     UNIX domain socket for systemwide daemon


API/ABI Policy
===

D-BUS API/ABI and protocol necessarily remain in flux until we are
sure it will meet the various needs it's intended to meet. This means
we need to see some significant sample usage in the contexts of GNOME,
KDE, desktop applications, and systemwide uses such as print queue
monitoring, hotplug events, or whatever. We need the flexibility to
incorporate feedback from this sample usage.

Once we feel confident in the protocol and the API, we will release a 
version 1.0. At that point, the intent is:

 - The protocol will never be broken again; any message bus should 
   work with any client forever. However, extensions are possible
   where the protocol is extensible.

 - If the library API is modified incompatibly, we will rename it 
   as in http://ometer.com/parallel.html - in other words, 
   it will always be possible to compile against and use the older 
   API, and apps will always get the API they expect.

Until 1.0 is released, feedback that requires API changes may be
incorporated into D-BUS. This may break the API, the ABI, the
protocol, or all three.

To avoid a huge soname, the plan is to increment the soname only
between official stable releases, not with every development snapshot.
Versions numbered 0.x are considered development snapshots.

Until 1.0 is released, you have to define -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
just as a safety check to be sure everyone is aware of this API/ABI
policy and has the right expectations.

We do need people to test the APIs, so please do use the development
snapshots of D-BUS. They are intended to work and we do actively
address bugs.

However, if you're shipping a commercial binary-only application that
needs to keep running on M future versions of N operating systems, you
might want to include your own copy of D-BUS rather than relying on
the installed copy, for example.