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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2018-04-12 13:51:38 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2018-04-23 18:27:44 +0100
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spec: Recommend Unix domain sockets for all non-Windows platforms
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106004 Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de> Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
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@@ -3543,6 +3543,10 @@
</para>
<para>
Unix domain sockets are not available on Windows.
+ On all other platforms, they are the recommended transport for
+ D-Bus, either used alone or in conjunction with
+ <link linkend="transports-systemd">systemd</link> or
+ <link linkend="transports-launchd">launchd</link> addresses.
</para>
<para>
Unix addresses that specify <literal>path</literal> or
@@ -3691,7 +3695,8 @@
</para>
<para>
The systemd transport accepts only one or more Unix domain or
- TCP streams sockets passed in via socket activation.
+ TCP streams sockets passed in via socket activation. Using
+ Unix domain sockets is strongly recommended.
</para>
<para>
The systemd transport is not available on non-Linux operating systems.