Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

Johannes Stezenbach
2015-04-21T07:58:04Z

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> I do. Implement something like my old SCM_IDENTITY proposal, which is
> kind of like kdbus metadata, opt-in, over UNIX sockets. Except that I
> never proposed most of the absurd metadata items that kdbus is
> proposing, and I also suggesting doing it over plain old UNIX sockets.

I'd like to point out that the DBus spec describes a fairly
standard per-connection authentication mechanism.
It seems that userspace DBus doesn't need per-message metadata.

Johannes