From: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:23:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: spec: Explicitly say that auth client and server take turns
X-Git-Tag: dbus-1.13.0~49
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=071237542ff924bd0019a77d7cd745a458545bb0;p=thirdparty%2Fdbus.git

spec: Explicitly say that auth client and server take turns

This was (hopefully) implicit in the protocol descriptions, but we
never actually said it. Do so.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104224
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
index 860b10d70..a6b5e595b 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
@@ -2238,7 +2238,9 @@
     </para>
     <para>
       In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client and
-      server respectively.
+      server respectively. The client sends the first line, and the
+      server must respond to each line from the client with a single-line
+      reply, with one exception: there is no reply to the BEGIN command.
     </para>
     <sect2 id="auth-protocol-overview">
       <title>Protocol Overview</title>