NAME |SYNOPSIS |DESCRIPTION |RETURN VALUE |NOTES |HISTORY |SEE ALSO |COLOPHON | |
SD_BUS_...CRIPTION(3) sd_bus_slot_set_descriptionSD_BUS_...CRIPTION(3)sd_bus_slot_set_description, sd_bus_slot_get_description - Set or query the description of bus slot objects
#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>int sd_bus_slot_set_description(sd_bus_slot*slot,const char *description);int sd_bus_slot_get_description(sd_bus_slot*bus,const char **description);
sd_bus_slot_set_description()sets the description string that is used in logging to the specified string. The string is copied internally and freed when the bus slot object is deallocated. Thedescription argument may beNULL, in which case the description is unset.sd_bus_slot_get_description()returns a description string indescription. If the string is not set, e.g. withsd_bus_slot_set_description(), and the slot is a bus match callback slot, the match string will be returned. Otherwise,-ENXIOis returned.
On success, these functions return 0 or a positive integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:-EINVAL An required argument isNULL.-ENXIO The bus slot object has no description.-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.
sd_bus_slot_set_description()andsd_bus_slot_get_description() were added in version 240.
systemd(1),sd-bus(3),sd_bus_slot_ref(3),sd_bus_slot_set_userdata(3)
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