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| author | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2013-09-16 14:36:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2013-10-08 11:06:19 +0100 |
| commit | c2d6824232e8dbb182c9a57ec382ed8da8be5fa2 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d9049c5f6966d1a624a81d35157fd166e128795 /doc | |
| parent | be2d249f71c8469c2e6a9af425fc4192b291f341 (diff) | |
| download | dbus-c2d6824232e8dbb182c9a57ec382ed8da8be5fa2.tar.gz | |
spec: briefly describe Name, Exec and User keys
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66608
Reviewed-by: Chengwei Yang <chengwei.yang@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-specification.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml index e6e75fde..51d6cb6f 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml @@ -4662,6 +4662,11 @@ <listitem><para>Comment format</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> + Service description files must contain a + <literal>D-BUS Service</literal> group with at least the keys + <literal>Name</literal> (the well-known name of the service) + and <literal>Exec</literal> (the command to be executed). + <figure> <title>Example service description file</title> <programlisting> @@ -4672,6 +4677,14 @@ </programlisting> </figure> </para> + + <para> + Additionally, service description files for the well-known system + bus on Unix must contain a <literal>User</literal> key, whose value + is the name of a user account (e.g. <literal>root</literal>). + The system service will be run as that user. + </para> + <para> When an application asks to start a service by name, the bus daemon tries to find a service that will own that name. It then tries to spawn the |