Attachment 56813 Details for Bug 44030 – added relative path in service files doc to dbus spec

[patch] added relative path in service files doc to dbus spec

0001-Documentated-relative-pathes-in-service-files.patch (text/plain), 1.55 KB, created by Ralf Habacker on 2012-02-09 04:56:07 UTC

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>From 482e53b028d49662db35324814f82df5e5b89c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de>
>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:54:55 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] Documentated relative pathes in service files
>
>---
> doc/dbus-specification.xml |   15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>index 7280cf1..46e5b78 100644
>--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>@@ -4216,6 +4216,21 @@
>         choose one?]
>       </para>
>       <para>
>+        Executable names may be absolute or relative. Relative pathes on Windows are
>+        based on the dbus installation root. The dbus installation root is the
>+        grandparent directory of the dbus daemon executable if it is located in a bin/
>+        subdirectory, otherwise the parent directory.
>+      </para>
>+      <para>
>+        Relative pathes on unix are based on the current working directory of the dbus
>+        daemon executable.
>+      </para>
>+      <para>
>+        Relative executable pathes in service files are useful on operating systems or
>+        environments where the path dbus daemon is running from differs from the path
>+        dbus is build for. Examples are the Windows operating system or portable installations.
>+      </para>
>+      <para>
>         The executable launched will have the environment variable
>         <literal>DBUS_STARTER_ADDRESS</literal> set to the address of the
>         message bus so it can connect and request the appropriate names.
>-- 
>1.7.4.msysgit.0
>

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