Re: xdg-app questions

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:

> ipc=true means we share the ipc namespace with the host. In practice
> this means that sysV ipc (e.g. shared memory) works between the app and
> the host. If this is not specifiec then XShm will not work for instance.
> A value of true here is indeed a "poke a hole" operation.
>
> network=true is similar in that a value of TRUE means sharing the
> network with the host. If false, then the app only sees a single
> loopback interface. Additionally abstract unix sockets are not able to
> access services in the host, which means we can't reach the session dbus
> (until we fix this in the session to not use abstract sockets).

Ah, this was my misunderstanding then - I've clarified the docs for
these keys: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps#Application_metadata