Some kdbus_flag and memfd related parts are left behind, because they
are entangled with the "legacy" dbus support.
test-bus-benchmark is switched to "manual". It was already broken before
(in the non-kdbus mode) but apparently nobody noticed. Hopefully it can
be fixed later.
kdbus has seen a larger update than expected lately, most notably with
kdbusfs, a file system to expose the kdbus control files:
* Each time a file system of this type is mounted, a new kdbus
domain is created.
* The layout inside each mount point is the same as before, except
that domains are not hierarchically nested anymore.
* Domains are therefore also unnamed now.
* Unmounting a kdbusfs will automatically also detroy the
associated domain.
* Hence, the action of creating a kdbus domain is now as
privileged as mounting a filesystem.
* This way, we can get around creating dev nodes for everything,
which is last but not least something that is not limited by
20-bit minor numbers.
The kdbus specific bits in nspawn have all been dropped now, as nspawn
can rely on the container OS to set up its own kdbus domain, simply by
mounting a new instance.
A new set of mounts has been added to mount things *after* the kernel
modules have been loaded. For now, only kdbus is in this set, which is
invoked with mount_setup_late().
Custom endpoints are alternative connection points to a bus, allowing
specific policy to be uploaded.
Add two functions to bus-kernel. One to create such endpoints, and another
one for setting a policy for them.
Add a new config 'Activating' directive which denotes whether a busname
is actually registered on the bus. It defaults to 'yes'.
If set to 'no', the .busname unit only uploads policy, which will remain
active as long as the unit is running.
AcceptFD= defaults to true, thus making sure that by default fd passing
is enabled for all activatable names. Since for normal bus connections
fd passing is enabled too by default this makes sure fd passing works
correctly regardless whether a service is already activated or not.
Making this configurable on both busname units and in bus connections is
messy, but unavoidable since busnames are established and may queue
messages before the connection feature negotiation is done by the
service eventually activated. Conversely, feature negotiation on bus
connections takes place before the connection acquires its names.
Of course, this means developers really should make sure to keep the
settings in .busname units in sync with what they later intend to
negotiate.
Activator connections may upload policy when registering to the bus.
This patch contains code to translate between BusNamePolicy objects and
the kdbus specific items.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek