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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-06-23 21:41:15 +0200
committerDaniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>2015-07-08 13:53:42 -0400
commit2a2e6a0845dedf57233d2c8a89201a563e0c3c6d (patch)
treebea75e4d0b0c39a760c3846062d8ac2c8a804971 /man/sd_bus_request_name.xml
parentdddbc69577820e6ecce17d3ac836ad865fcbcde2 (diff)
man: minor updates to the sd_bus_request_name() documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'man/sd_bus_request_name.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/sd_bus_request_name.xml15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_bus_request_name.xml b/man/sd_bus_request_name.xml
index 9b0a93d888..f07ae09555 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_request_name.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_request_name.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_bus_request_name</refname>
<refname>sd_bus_release_name</refname>
- <refpurpose>Request or release a well-known name on a bus</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Request or release a well-known service name on a bus</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> requests a
- well-known name on a bus. It takes a bus connection, a valid bus
- name and a flags parameter. The flags parameter is a combination
- of the following flags:</para>
+ well-known service name on a bus. It takes a bus connection, a
+ valid bus name and a flags parameter. The flags parameter is a
+ combination of the following flags:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
@@ -166,8 +166,11 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>A specified parameter is
- invalid.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>A specified parameter is invalid. This is also
+ generated when the requested name is a special service name
+ reserved by the D-Bus specification, or when the operation is
+ requested on a connection that does not refer to a
+ bus.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>