NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | EXAMPLE | HISTORY | SEE ALSO | NOTES | COLOPHON |
|
|
SD_DEVICE...RATOR_NEW(3) sd_device_enumerator_newSD_DEVICE...RATOR_NEW(3)
sd_device_enumerator_new, sd_device_enumerator_ref, sd_device_enumerator_unref, sd_device_enumerator_unrefp - Create, reference, and release a device enumerator object
#include <systemd/sd-device.h> int sd_device_enumerator_new(sd_device_enumerator **ret); sd_device_enumerator* sd_device_enumerator_ref(sd_device_enumerator *enumerator); sd_device_enumerator* sd_device_enumerator_unref(sd_device_enumerator *enumerator); void sd_device_enumerator_unrefp(sd_device_enumerator **enumerator);
The sd_device_enumerator family of functions provides a way to iterate over devices recognized by systemd-udevd(8). The enumerator allows filtering and matching devices by subsystem, properties and other attributes. sd_device_enumerator_new() creates a new device enumerator object and stores the result in the pointer referenced by ret. Returns 0 on success, or a negative errno-style error code on failure. sd_device_enumerator_ref() increases the reference count of the specified enumerator by one. sd_device_enumerator_unref() decreases the reference count of the enumerator by one. When the reference count reaches zero, the enumerator object is destroyed and cannot be used anymore, so further calls to sd_device_enumerator_unref() or sd_device_enumerator_unrefp() are illegal. sd_device_enumerator_unrefp() is similar to sd_device_enumerator_unref() but takes a pointer to a pointer to an sd_device_enumerator object. This call is useful in conjunction with GCC's and LLVM's Clean-up Variable Attribute[1]. Note that this function is defined as an inline function. Use a declaration like the following, in order to allocate a sd_device_enumerator object that is freed automatically as the code block is left: { __attribute__((cleanup(sd_device_enumerator_unrefp))) sd_device_enumerator *enumerator = NULL; int r; ... r = sd_device_enumerator_new(&enumerator); if (r < 0) fprintf(stderr, "Failed to allocate sd_device_enumerator: %s\n", strerror(-r)); ... } sd_device_enumerator_ref() and sd_device_enumerator_unref() execute no operation if the enumerator is NULL. sd_device_enumerator_unrefp() will first dereference its argument, which must not be NULL, and will execute no operation if that is NULL.
sd_device_enumerator_new() returns 0 on success or a negative errno-style error code on failure. sd_device_enumerator_ref() always returns the enumerator pointer. sd_device_enumerator_unref() always returns NULL. Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems: -ENOMEM Memory allocation failed. -EINVAL The argument is invalid.
Example 1. Using sd_device_enumerator_new() /* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 */ #include <stdio.h> #include <systemd/sd-device.h> int main(void) { sd_device_enumerator *enumerator; int r; r = sd_device_enumerator_new(&enumerator); if (r < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to create enumerator: %s\n", strerror(-r)); return 1; } sd_device_enumerator_ref(enumerator); sd_device_enumerator_unref(enumerator); sd_device_enumerator_unref(enumerator); return 0; }
sd_device_enumerator_new(), sd_device_enumerator_ref(), sd_device_enumerator_unref(), and sd_device_enumerator_unrefp() were added in version 240.
sd_device_ref(3), sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(3)
1. Clean-up Variable Attribute https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html
This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
manager) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
systemd 258~rc2 SD_DEVICE...RATOR_NEW(3)
Pages that refer to this page: sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(3), sd_device_enumerator_get_device_first(3), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)