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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-11-26 02:20:28 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-11-26 02:20:55 +0100
commitb5dae4c7f77f7c87b91e0afb60a31c690dda4a1f (patch)
tree0bc1ce84ed97884bae8f4c332074c532c28f6470 /man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
parentf3c0588651927ebac691130aa861b878fa22e527 (diff)
sd-bus: add suppot for renegotiating message credential attach flags
Diffstat (limited to 'man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml45
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml b/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
index 3d7a20b2ff..4fbffdf38c 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_negotiate_fds.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_negotiate_creds</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>b</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>uint64_t <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -107,25 +108,34 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_seqno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
fail with <constant>-ENODATA</constant> on incoming messages. Note
that not all transports support timestamping of messages. On local
- transports, the timestamping is applied by the kernel and cannot be
- manipulated by userspace.</para>
+ transports, the timestamping is applied by the kernel and cannot
+ be manipulated by userspace. By default, message timestamping is
+ not negotiated for all connections.</para>
<para><function>sd_bus_negotiate_creds()</function> controls
whether implicit sender credentials shall be attached
- automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object and a
- bit mask value, which controls which credential parameters are
- attached. If this is not used,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_creds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- fails with <constant>-ENODATA</constant> on incoming
- messages. Note that not all transports support attaching sender
- credentials to messages, or do not support all types of sender
- credential parameters. On local transports, the sender credentials
- are attached by the kernel and cannot be manipulated by
- userspace. By default, no sender credentials are attached.</para>
-
- <para>These functions may be called only before the connection has
- been started with
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_start</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object, a
+ boolean indicating wether to enable or disable the credential
+ parts encoded in the bit mask value argument. Note that not all
+ transports support attaching sender credentials to messages, or do
+ not support all types of sender credential parameters, or might
+ suppress them under certain circumstances for individual
+ messages. On local transports, the sender credentials are attached
+ by the kernel and cannot be manipulated by userspace. By default,
+ no sender credentials are attached.</para>
+
+ <para>The <function>sd_bus_negotiate_fds()</function> function may
+ be called only before the connection has been started with
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_start</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Both
+ <function>sd_bus_negotiate_timestamp()</function> and
+ <function>sd_bus_negotiate_creds()</function> also may be called
+ after a connection has been set up. Note that when operating on a
+ connection that is shared between multiple components of the same
+ program (for example via
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_default</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
+ it is highly recommended to only enable additional per message
+ metadata fields, but never disable them again, in order not to
+ disable functionality needed by other components.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -169,7 +179,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_start</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_can_send</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_creds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_creds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.busname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>