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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] similar change to dbus_connection_unregister_object_path
From:       Havoc Pennington <hp () redhat ! com>
Date:       2007-10-10 18:18:05
Message-ID: 470D175D.5000307 () redhat ! com
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Hi,

Simon McVittie wrote:
>> I'm struggling to think of an example of non-broken code that 
>> unregisters without knowing whether it's registered.
> 
> Language bindings don't necessarily want to know what paths they've
> registered - they want (their) user code to be responsible for knowing that.
> However, if we used that strategy at the moment, failure looks like a D-Bus
> bug, rather than a user code bug (high-level language users expect *their*
> bugs to manifest as exceptions or whatever).
> 

That's still not an argument for silently failing though - it's an 
argument for returning a DBusError.

Havoc

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