sd_bus_can_send(3) — Linux manual page

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SD_BUS_CAN_SEND(3)           sd_bus_can_send           SD_BUS_CAN_SEND(3)

NAME         top

       sd_bus_can_send - Check which types can be sent over a bus object

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

       int sd_bus_can_send(sd_bus *bus, char type);

DESCRIPTION         top

       sd_bus_can_send() is mostly used for checking if file descriptor
       passing is available on the given bus.  type can be any of the
       SD_BUS_TYPE constants.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On failure, sd_bus_can_send() returns a negative errno-style error
       code. If values of the given type can be sent over the given bus,
       it returns a positive integer. Otherwise, it returns zero.

   Errors
       Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

       -ENOPKG
           The bus object bus could not be resolved.

       -ENOTCONN
           The input parameter bus is NULL or the bus is not connected.

       -ECHILD
           The bus object bus was created in a different process.

NOTES         top

       Functions described here are available as a shared library, which
       can be compiled against and linked to with the
       libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.

       All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single
       thread may operate on a given object at any given time. Different
       threads may access the same object at different times. Multiple
       independent objects may be used from different threads in
       parallel.

       The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be
       not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the
       functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel
       thread. It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an
       early phase of the program when no other threads have been
       started.

HISTORY         top

       sd_bus_can_send() was added in version 221.

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), sd-bus(3)

COLOPHON         top

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