From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:02:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: spec: mention that buses may have a security policy, but leave it implementation... 
X-Git-Tag: dbus-1.5.6~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7afd5e97ce1c4fbd9e86d9e852e9385aa000619a;p=thirdparty%2Fdbus.git

spec: mention that buses may have a security policy, but leave it implementation-specific

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39450
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
index 05837715a..7c04984f3 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
@@ -3877,6 +3877,14 @@
         expected to reply to the ping.
       </para>
 
+      <para>
+        Message bus implementations may impose a security policy which
+        prevents certain messages from being sent or received.
+        When a message cannot be sent or received due to a security
+        policy, the message bus should send an error reply, unless the
+        original message had the <literal>NO_REPLY</literal> flag.
+      </para>
+
       <sect3 id="message-bus-routing-eavesdropping">
         <title>Eavesdropping</title>
         <para>