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LIBSYSTEMD(3) libsystemdLIBSYSTEMD(3)libsystemd - Functions for implementing services and interacting with systemd
#include <systemd/sd-bus.h> #include <systemd/sd-daemon.h> #include <systemd/sd-device.h> #include <systemd/sd-event.h> #include <systemd/sd-gpt.h> #include <systemd/sd-hwdb.h> #include <systemd/sd-id128.h> #include <systemd/sd-journal.h> #include <systemd/sd-json.h> #include <systemd/sd-login.h> #include <systemd/sd-messages.h> #include <systemd/sd-path.h> #include <systemd/sd-varlink.h>pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd
The libsystemd library provides functions that allow interacting with various interfaces provided by thesystemd(1) service manager, as well as various other functions and constants useful for implementing services in general. Seesd-bus(3),sd-bus-errors(3),sd-daemon(3),sd-device(3),sd-event(3),sd-hwdb(3),sd-id128(3),sd-journal(3),sd-json(3),sd-login(3) andsd-varlink(3) for information about different parts of the library interface.
Strict backwards-compatibility is maintained for the API (application programming interface) and ABI (application binary interface). Symbol versioning is used, with symbols only added and never removed.
Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to with thelibsystemd pkg-config(1) file. The code described here usesgetenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the functions described here must not callsetenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is recommended to only do calls tosetenv()from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started.
systemd(1),libudev(3),pkg-config(1),Interface Portability andStability Promise[1]
1. Interface Portability and Stability Promisehttps://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/
This page is part of thesystemd (systemd system and service manager) project. Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see ⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which isnot part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.orgsystemd 258~rc2LIBSYSTEMD(3)Pages that refer to this page:sd-bus(3), sd-bus-errors(3), sd-daemon(3), sd-device(3), sd-event(3), sd-hwdb(3), sd-id128(3), sd-journal(3), sd-json(3), sd-login(3), sd-varlink(3), systemd.service(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)
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