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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: DBus/QtDBus Concerns
From:       Will Stephenson <wstephenson () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-07-13 21:35:34
Message-ID: 200607132335.34690.wstephenson () kde ! org
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On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:55, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Thursday 13 Jul 2006 10:31, Thomas Zander wrote:
> >On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:50, David Jarvie wrote:
> >> KAlarm and kalarmd need to interact via D-Bus. If some other
> >> application made certain D-Bus calls, alarms could be lost.
> >
> >Only if those applications were malicious. If you expect things to get
> >lost due to bugs, I suggest you take a long look at the interaction you
> >have via dbus since that may need some work ;)
>
> I'm thinking more in terms of people trying to do clever things with the
> "private" interface, which might mess things up.

You can make that interface pretty darn private by not installing the IDL for 
it, and disabling its Introspect method.  Then $noseyparker has to read the 
source code in order to mess things up - just desserts don't you think?

Will
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