NAME |SYNOPSIS |DESCRIPTION |RETURN VALUE |NOTES |SEE ALSO |COLOPHON | |
SD_BUS_MESSAGE_COPY(3) sd_bus_message_copySD_BUS_MESSAGE_COPY(3)sd_bus_message_copy - Copy the contents of one message to another
#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>int sd_bus_message_copy(sd_bus_message *m, sd_bus_message *source,intall);
sd_bus_message_copy()copies the contents from messagesource tom. Ifall is false, a single complete type is copied (basic or container). Ifall is true, the contents are copied until the end of the currently open container or the end ofsource.
On success, this call returns true if anything was copied, and false if there was nothing to copy. On failure, it returns a negative errno-style error code.Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:-EINVALsource orm areNULL.-EPERM Messagem has been sealed orsource hasnot been sealed.-ESTALE Destination message is in invalid state.-ENXIO Destination message cannot be appended to.-ENOMEM Memory allocation failed.
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),sd-bus(3),sd_bus_message_append(3)
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