SD-HWDB(3) sd-hwdbSD-HWDB(3)sd-hwdb - Read-only access to the hardware description database
#include <systemd/sd-hwdb.h>pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd
sd-hwdb.h is part oflibsystemd(3) and allows read-only access the systemd database of hardware properties. Seehwdb(7) andsystemd-hwdb(8) for more information about the database. Seesd_hwdb_new(3) andsd_hwdb_get(3) for information about the functions available.
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),systemd-udevd.service(8)
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