sd_bus_get_name_machine_id(3) — Linux manual page

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SD_BUS_G...CHINE_ID(3)  sd_bus_get_name_machine_id SD_BUS_G...CHINE_ID(3)

NAME         top

       sd_bus_get_name_machine_id - Retrieve a bus client's machine
       identity

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

       int sd_bus_get_name_machine_id(sd_bus *bus, const char *name,
                                      sd_id128_t *machine);

DESCRIPTION         top

       sd_bus_get_name_machine_id() retrieves the D-Bus machine identity
       of the machine that the bus client identified by name is running
       on. Internally, it calls the GetMachineId method of the
       org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer interface. The D-Bus machine identity is
       a 128-bit UUID. On Linux systems running systemd, this corresponds
       to the contents of /etc/machine-id. On success, the machine
       identity is stored in machine.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, this function returns a non-negative integer. On
       failure, it returns a negative errno-style error code.

   Errors
       Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

       -EINVAL
           An argument is invalid.

       -ENOPKG
           The bus cannot be resolved.

       -ECHILD
           The bus was created in a different process, library or module
           instance.

       -ENOMEM
           Memory allocation failed.

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_get_name_machine_id() was added in version 221.

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), sd-bus(3)

COLOPHON         top

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