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setting as negotiated by the program ultimately activated. By
default, file descriptor passing is enabled for both.</para>
- <para><function>sd_bus_negotiate_timestamps()</function> controls
- whether implicit sender timestamps shall be attached automatically
- to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object and a boolean, which,
- when true, enables timestamping, and, when false, disables it.
- Use
+ <para><function>sd_bus_negotiate_timestamp()</function> controls whether implicit sender
+ timestamps shall be attached automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object and a
+ boolean, which, when true, enables timestamping, and, when false, disables it. Use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_monotonic_usec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_realtime_usec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_get_seqnum</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- to query the timestamps of incoming messages. If negotiation is
- disabled or not supported, these calls will fail with
- <constant>-ENODATA</constant>. Note that not all transports
- support timestamping of messages. Specifically, timestamping is
- only available on the kdbus transport, but not on dbus1. The
- timestamping is applied by the kernel and cannot be manipulated by
- userspace. By default, message timestamping is not negotiated for
+ to query the timestamps of incoming messages. If negotiation is disabled or not supported, these
+ calls will fail with <constant>-ENODATA</constant>. Note that currently no transports support
+ timestamping of messages. By default, message timestamping is not negotiated for
connections.</para>
- <para><function>sd_bus_negotiate_creds()</function> controls
- whether and which implicit sender credentials shall be attached
- automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object and a
- boolean indicating whether 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. Specifically, implicit sender credentials on messages
- are only fully supported on kdbus transports, and dbus1 only
- supports <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant>. The sender
- credentials are attached by the kernel and cannot be manipulated
- by userspace, and are thus suitable for authorization
- decisions. By default, only
- <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_WELL_KNOWN_NAMES</constant> and
- <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant> are enabled. In
- fact, these two credential fields are always sent along and cannot
- be turned off.</para>
+ <para><function>sd_bus_negotiate_creds()</function> controls whether and which implicit sender
+ credentials shall be attached automatically to all incoming messages. Takes a bus object and a
+ boolean indicating whether 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. Specifically, dbus1 only supports
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant>. The sender credentials are suitable for
+ authorization decisions. By default, only <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_WELL_KNOWN_NAMES</constant> and
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant> are enabled. In fact, these two credential fields
+ are always sent along and cannot be turned off.</para>
<para>The <function>sd_bus_negotiate_fds()</function> function may
be called only before the connection has been started with