NAME |SYNOPSIS |DESCRIPTION |RETURN VALUE |NOTES |HISTORY |SEE ALSO |COLOPHON | |
SD_BUS_...TIMEOUT(3) sd_bus_set_method_call_timeoutSD_BUS_...TIMEOUT(3)sd_bus_set_method_call_timeout, sd_bus_get_method_call_timeout - Set or query the default D-Bus method call timeout of a bus object
#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>int sd_bus_set_method_call_timeout(sd_bus *bus, uint64_tusec);int sd_bus_get_method_call_timeout(sd_bus *bus, uint64_t *ret);
sd_bus_set_method_call_timeout()sets the default D-Bus method call timeout ofbus tousec microseconds.sd_bus_get_method_call_timeout()queries the default D-Bus method call timeout ofbus. If no method call timeout was set usingsd_bus_set_method_call_timeout(), the timeout is read from the$SYSTEMD_BUS_TIMEOUT environment variable. If this environment variable is unset or does not contain a valid timeout, the implementation falls back to a predefined method call timeout of 25 seconds. Note that$SYSTEMD_BUS_TIMEOUT is read once and cached so callers should not rely on being able to change the default method call timeout at runtime by changing the value of$SYSTEMD_BUS_TIMEOUT. Instead, callsd_bus_set_method_call_timeout()to change the default method call timeout.
On success, these functions return a non-negative integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:-EINVAL The parametersbus orret areNULL. Added in version 246.-ENOPKG Bus objectbus could not be resolved. Added in version 246.
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.
sd_bus_set_method_call_timeout()andsd_bus_get_method_call_timeout()were added in version 246.
systemd(1),sd-bus(3),sd_bus_call(3)
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