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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2012-02-07 17:43:28 +0000
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2012-02-07 17:43:28 +0000
commiteb586136af4f8a7d96c13a68f05eaa331ff8021c (patch)
tree6ae136941372ce24360bae1a1d15b9d2095c5d5f
parent19ca79a750c69bce776b83a4c9291cf77687ad0a (diff)
Document that dbus-launch is not dbus-run-sessiondbus-lunch-39197
Architectural assumptions inside dbus-launch mean that it is unsuitable for use in contexts where a particular process's lifetime defines the session, unless there is an out-of-band mechanism (like the X server) which can signal the end of the session. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39197
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-launch.1 b/doc/dbus-launch.1
index f59b64e6..6c7df19e 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-launch.1
+++ b/doc/dbus-launch.1
@@ -204,6 +204,19 @@ Emit Bourne\-shell compatible code to set up environment variables.
.I "\-\-version"
Print the version of dbus\-launch
+.SH NOTES
+
+If you run
+.B "dbus\-launch myapp"
+(with any other options), dbus\-daemon will
+.I not
+exit when
+.B myapp
+terminates: this is because
+.B myapp
+is assumed to be part of a larger session, rather than a session in its
+own right.
+
.SH AUTHOR
See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/doc/AUTHORS