sd_varlink_set_description - Man Page

Set or query description of a Varlink connection object

Synopsis

#include <systemd/sd-varlink​.h>

int sd_varlink_set_description(sd_varlink *link, const char *description);

const char* sd_varlink_get_description(sd_varlink *link);

Description

sd_varlink_set_description() sets the description string that is used in logging to the specified string​. The string is copied internally and freed when the Varlink connection object is deallocated​. The description argument may be NULL, in which case the description is unset​.

sd_varlink_get_description() returns a description string for the specified Varlink connection​. This string may have been previously set with sd_varlink_set_description()​. If not set this way, a default string or NULL may be returned, depending how the connection was allocated and set up​.

Return Value

On success, sd_varlink_set_description() returns a non-negative integer​. On failure, it returns a negative errno-style error code​. sd_varlink_get_description() returns either NULL or a pointer to the description string​.

Errors

Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

-EINVAL

An argument is invalid​.

-ENOMEM

Memory allocation failed​.

Notes

Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to with the libsystemd ​pkg-config(1) file​.

The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe​. This means that the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread​. It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started​.

History

sd_varlink_set_description() was added in version 257​.

sd_varlink_get_description() was added in version 258​.

See Also

systemd(1), sd-varlink(3)

Info

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