Add note about how it would be cute to give more info about fds

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdbus/gdbusconnection.c b/gdbus/gdbusconnection.c
index dfb2745..aee5340 100644
--- a/gdbus/gdbusconnection.c
+++ b/gdbus/gdbusconnection.c
@@ -30,6 +30,20 @@
  *   e.g. X11 D-Bus transports without dlopen()'ing or linking against
  *   libX11 from libgio.
  *   - see g_dbus_address_connect() in gdbusaddress.c
+ *
+ * - would be cute to use kernel-specific APIs to resolve fds for
+ *   debug output when using G_DBUS_DEBUG=messages, e.g. in addition to
+ *
+ *     fd 21: dev=8:1,mode=0100644,ino=1171231,uid=0,gid=0,rdev=0:0,size=234,atime=1273070640,mtime=1267126160,ctime=1267126160
+ *
+ *   maybe we can show more information about what fd 21 really is.
+ *   Ryan suggests looking in /proc/self/fd for clues / symlinks!
+ *   Initial experiments on Linux 2.6 suggests that the symlink looks
+ *   like this:
+ *
+ *    3 -> /proc/18068/fd
+ *
+ *   e.g. not of much use.
  */
 
 #include "config.h"