Re: [Bluez-devel] D-BUS fixes for hcid

[Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@nokia.com>]

Hi Marcel,

I must admit that I hadn't looked into how the bluez-pin program works
in D-BUS mode. It seems it should be running all the time to be able to
receive any D-BUS requests, correct?

The service activation feature of D-BUS which I have talked about is
designed to solve the problem where some D-BUS service should be
launched on-demand. I think the pin-helper falls exactly into this
category, and would be IMHO more elegant if it wouldn't have to be
running all the time but would be automatically launched by D-BUS daemon
when needed.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004, ext Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > The second part (dbus_message_set_auto_activation) enables service
> > activation if the PinAgent service isn't aquired by any process (i.e.
> > the D-BUS daemon will execute the pin-helper program if needed).
> 
> The hcid shouldn't execute the D-Bus PIN helper.

Not hcid, but the D-BUS daemon.

> From my local .xession I start "bluez-pin --dbus &" and everything works
> fine.

Ok. But by using D-BUS service activation, you wouldn't need to do this.

Johan