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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>sd_notify()</function> may be called by a service
to notify the service manager about state changes. It can be used
to send arbitrary information, encoded in an
environment-block-like string. Most importantly, it can be used for
start-up completion notification.</para>
<para>If the <parameter>unset_environment</parameter> parameter is
non-zero, <function>sd_notify()</function> will unset the
<varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> environment variable before
returning (regardless of whether the function call itself
succeeded or not). Further calls to
<function>sd_notify()</function> will then fail, but the variable
is no longer inherited by child processes.</para>
<para><function>sd_notify()</function> may be called by a service to notify the service manager about
state changes. It can be used to send arbitrary information, encoded in an environment-block-like
string. Most importantly, it can be used for start-up completion notification.</para>
<para>The <parameter>state</parameter> parameter should contain a
newline-separated list of variable assignments, similar in style
to an environment block. A trailing newline is implied if none is
specified. The string may contain any kind of variable
assignments, but the following shall be considered
<para>If the <parameter>unset_environment</parameter> parameter is non-zero,
<function>sd_notify()</function> will unset the <varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> environment variable
before returning (regardless of whether the function call itself succeeded or not). Further calls to
<function>sd_notify()</function> will then fail, but the variable is no longer inherited by child
processes.</para>
<para>The <parameter>state</parameter> parameter should contain a newline-separated list of variable
assignments, similar in style to an environment block. A trailing newline is implied if none is
specified. The string may contain any kind of variable assignments, but the following shall be considered
well-known:</para>
<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
<term>STOPPING=1</term>
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager that the service is
beginning its shutdown. This is useful to allow the service
manager to track the service's internal state, and present it
to the user.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager that the service is beginning its shutdown. This is useful
to allow the service manager to track the service's internal state, and present it to the
user.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>STATUS=…</term>
<listitem><para>Passes a single-line UTF-8 status string back
to the service manager that describes the service state. This
is free-form and can be used for various purposes: general
state feedback, fsck-like programs could pass completion
percentages and failing programs could pass a human-readable
error message. Example: <literal>STATUS=Completed 66% of file
system check…</literal></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Passes a single-line UTF-8 status string back to the service manager that describes
the service state. This is free-form and can be used for various purposes: general state feedback,
fsck-like programs could pass completion percentages and failing programs could pass a human-readable
error message. Example: <literal>STATUS=Completed 66% of file system
check…</literal></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>NOTIFYACCESS=…</term>
<listitem><para>Reset the access to the service status notification
socket during runtime, overriding <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> setting
in the service unit file. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details, specifically <literal>NotifyAccess=</literal> for a list of
accepted values.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reset the access to the service status notification socket during runtime, overriding
<varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> setting in the service unit file. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details, specifically <literal>NotifyAccess=</literal> for a list of accepted
values.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>ERRNO=…</term>
<listitem><para>If a service fails, the errno-style error
code, formatted as string. Example: <literal>ERRNO=2</literal>
for ENOENT.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If a service fails, the errno-style error code, formatted as string. Example:
<literal>ERRNO=2</literal> for ENOENT.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>BUSERROR=…</term>
<listitem><para>If a service fails, the D-Bus error-style
error code. Example:
<listitem><para>If a service fails, the D-Bus error-style error code. Example:
<literal>BUSERROR=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut</literal></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>MAINPID=…</term>
<listitem><para>The main process ID (PID) of the service, in
case the service manager did not fork off the process itself.
Example: <literal>MAINPID=4711</literal></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The main process ID (PID) of the service, in case the service manager did not fork
off the process itself. Example: <literal>MAINPID=4711</literal></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>WATCHDOG=1</term>
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager to update the
watchdog timestamp. This is the keep-alive ping that services
need to issue in regular intervals if
<varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> is enabled for it. See
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager to update the watchdog timestamp. This is the keep-alive
ping that services need to issue in regular intervals if <varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> is enabled
for it. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for information how to enable this functionality and
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_watchdog_enabled</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for the details of how the service can check whether the
watchdog is enabled. </para></listitem>
for the details of how the service can check whether the watchdog is enabled. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>WATCHDOG=trigger</term>
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager that the service detected an internal error that should be handled by
the configured watchdog options. This will trigger the same behaviour as if <varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> is
enabled and the service did not send <literal>WATCHDOG=1</literal> in time. Note that
<varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> does not need to be enabled for <literal>WATCHDOG=trigger</literal> to trigger
the watchdog action. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
information about the watchdog behavior. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager that the service detected an internal error that should be
handled by the configured watchdog options. This will trigger the same behaviour as if
<varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> is enabled and the service did not send <literal>WATCHDOG=1</literal>
in time. Note that <varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> does not need to be enabled for
<literal>WATCHDOG=trigger</literal> to trigger the watchdog action. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for information about the watchdog behavior. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>WATCHDOG_USEC=…</term>
<listitem><para>Reset <varname>watchdog_usec</varname> value during runtime.
Notice that this is not available when using <function>sd_event_set_watchdog()</function>
or <function>sd_watchdog_enabled()</function>.
Example : <literal>WATCHDOG_USEC=20000000</literal></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Reset <varname>watchdog_usec</varname> value during runtime. Notice that this is not
available when using <function>sd_event_set_watchdog()</function> or
<function>sd_watchdog_enabled()</function>. Example :
<literal>WATCHDOG_USEC=20000000</literal></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>EXTEND_TIMEOUT_USEC=…</term>
<listitem><para>Tells the service manager to extend the startup, runtime or shutdown service timeout
corresponding the current state. The value specified is a time in microseconds during which the service must
send a new message. A service timeout will occur if the message isn't received, but only if the runtime of the
current state is beyond the original maximum times of <varname>TimeoutStartSec=</varname>, <varname>RuntimeMaxSec=</varname>,
and <varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname>.
See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
corresponding the current state. The value specified is a time in microseconds during which the
service must send a new message. A service timeout will occur if the message isn't received, but only
if the runtime of the current state is beyond the original maximum times of
<varname>TimeoutStartSec=</varname>, <varname>RuntimeMaxSec=</varname>, and
<varname>TimeoutStopSec=</varname>. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for effects on the service timeouts.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
<term>FDSTOREREMOVE=1</term>
<listitem><para>Removes file descriptors from the file descriptor store. This field needs to be combined with
<varname>FDNAME=</varname> to specify the name of the file descriptors to remove.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Removes file descriptors from the file descriptor store. This field needs to be
combined with <varname>FDNAME=</varname> to specify the name of the file descriptors to
remove.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FDNAME=…</term>
<listitem><para>When used in combination with <varname>FDSTORE=1</varname>, specifies a name for the submitted
file descriptors. When used with <varname>FDSTOREREMOVE=1</varname>, specifies the name for the file
descriptors to remove. This name is passed to the service during activation, and may be queried using
<listitem><para>When used in combination with <varname>FDSTORE=1</varname>, specifies a name for the
submitted file descriptors. When used with <varname>FDSTOREREMOVE=1</varname>, specifies the name for
the file descriptors to remove. This name is passed to the service during activation, and may be
queried using
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_listen_fds_with_names</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. File
descriptors submitted without this field set, will implicitly get the name <literal>stored</literal>
assigned. Note that, if multiple file descriptors are submitted at once, the specified name will be assigned to
all of them. In order to assign different names to submitted file descriptors, submit them in separate
invocations of <function>sd_pid_notify_with_fds()</function>. The name may consist of arbitrary ASCII
characters except control characters or <literal>:</literal>. It may not be longer than 255 characters. If a
submitted name does not follow these restrictions, it is ignored.</para></listitem>
assigned. Note that, if multiple file descriptors are submitted at once, the specified name will be
assigned to all of them. In order to assign different names to submitted file descriptors, submit
them in separate invocations of <function>sd_pid_notify_with_fds()</function>. The name may consist
of arbitrary ASCII characters except control characters or <literal>:</literal>. It may not be longer
than 255 characters. If a submitted name does not follow these restrictions, it is
ignored.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FDPOLL=0</term>
<listitem><para>When used in combination with <varname>FDSTORE=1</varname>, disables polling of the stored
file descriptors regardless of whether or not they are pollable. As this option disables automatic cleanup
of the stored file descriptors on EPOLLERR and EPOLLHUP, care must be taken to ensure proper manual cleanup.
Use of this option is not generally recommended except for when automatic cleanup has unwanted behavior such
as prematurely discarding file descriptors from the store.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>When used in combination with <varname>FDSTORE=1</varname>, disables polling of the
stored file descriptors regardless of whether or not they are pollable. As this option disables
automatic cleanup of the stored file descriptors on EPOLLERR and EPOLLHUP, care must be taken to
ensure proper manual cleanup. Use of this option is not generally recommended except for when
automatic cleanup has unwanted behavior such as prematurely discarding file descriptors from the
store.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
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</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>It is recommended to prefix variable names that are not
listed above with <varname>X_</varname> to avoid namespace
clashes.</para>
<para>It is recommended to prefix variable names that are not listed above with <varname>X_</varname> to
avoid namespace clashes.</para>
<para>Note that systemd will accept status data sent from a
service only if the <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> option is
correctly set in the service definition file. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details.</para>
<para>Note that systemd will accept status data sent from a service only if the
<varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> option is correctly set in the service definition file. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
details.</para>
<para>Note that <function>sd_notify()</function> notifications may be attributed to units correctly only if either
the sending process is still around at the time PID 1 processes the message, or if the sending process is
explicitly runtime-tracked by the service manager. The latter is the case if the service manager originally forked
off the process, i.e. on all processes that match <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname><option>main</option> or
<varname>NotifyAccess=</varname><option>exec</option>. Conversely, if an auxiliary process of the unit sends an
<function>sd_notify()</function> message and immediately exits, the service manager might not be able to properly
attribute the message to the unit, and thus will ignore it, even if
<para>Note that <function>sd_notify()</function> notifications may be attributed to units correctly only
if either the sending process is still around at the time PID 1 processes the message, or if the sending
process is explicitly runtime-tracked by the service manager. The latter is the case if the service
manager originally forked off the process, i.e. on all processes that match
<varname>NotifyAccess=</varname><option>main</option> or
<varname>NotifyAccess=</varname><option>exec</option>. Conversely, if an auxiliary process of the unit
sends an <function>sd_notify()</function> message and immediately exits, the service manager might not be
able to properly attribute the message to the unit, and thus will ignore it, even if
<varname>NotifyAccess=</varname><option>all</option> is set for it.</para>
<para>Hence, to eliminate all race conditions involving lookup of the client's unit and attribution of notifications
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service manager, otherwise this synchronization mechanism is unnecessary for attribution of notifications to the
unit.</para>
<para><function>sd_notifyf()</function> is similar to
<function>sd_notify()</function> but takes a
<function>printf()</function>-like format string plus
arguments.</para>
<para><function>sd_notifyf()</function> is similar to <function>sd_notify()</function> but takes a
<function>printf()</function>-like format string plus arguments.</para>
<para><function>sd_pid_notify()</function> and
<function>sd_pid_notifyf()</function> are similar to
<function>sd_notify()</function> and
<function>sd_notifyf()</function> but take a process ID (PID) to
use as originating PID for the message as first argument. This is
useful to send notification messages on behalf of other processes,
provided the appropriate privileges are available. If the PID
argument is specified as 0, the process ID of the calling process
is used, in which case the calls are fully equivalent to
<function>sd_notify()</function> and
<function>sd_notifyf()</function>.</para>
<para><function>sd_pid_notify()</function> and <function>sd_pid_notifyf()</function> are similar to
<function>sd_notify()</function> and <function>sd_notifyf()</function> but take a process ID (PID) to use
as originating PID for the message as first argument. This is useful to send notification messages on
behalf of other processes, provided the appropriate privileges are available. If the PID argument is
specified as 0, the process ID of the calling process is used, in which case the calls are fully
equivalent to <function>sd_notify()</function> and <function>sd_notifyf()</function>.</para>
<para><function>sd_pid_notify_with_fds()</function> is similar to <function>sd_pid_notify()</function>
but takes an additional array of file descriptors. These file descriptors are sent along the notification
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that file descriptors sent to the service manager on a message without <literal>FDSTORE=1</literal> are
immediately closed on reception.</para>
<para><function>sd_notify_barrier()</function> allows the caller to
synchronize against reception of previously sent notification messages
and uses the <varname>BARRIER=1</varname> command. It takes a relative
<varname>timeout</varname> value in microseconds which is passed to
<para><function>sd_notify_barrier()</function> allows the caller to synchronize against reception of
previously sent notification messages and uses the <varname>BARRIER=1</varname> command. It takes a
relative <varname>timeout</varname> value in microseconds which is passed to
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ppoll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>. A value of UINT64_MAX is interpreted as infinite timeout.
</para>
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<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para>On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style error code. If <varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> was
not set and hence no status message could be sent, 0 is returned. If the status was sent, these functions return a
positive value. In order to support both service managers that implement this scheme and those which do not, it is
generally recommended to ignore the return value of this call. Note that the return value simply indicates whether
the notification message was enqueued properly, it does not reflect whether the message could be processed
<para>On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style error code. If
<varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> was not set and hence no status message could be sent, 0 is
returned. If the status was sent, these functions return a positive value. In order to support both
service managers that implement this scheme and those which do not, it is generally recommended to ignore
the return value of this call. Note that the return value simply indicates whether the notification
message was enqueued properly, it does not reflect whether the message could be processed
successfully. Specifically, no error is returned when a file descriptor is attempted to be stored using
<varname>FDSTORE=1</varname> but the service is not actually configured to permit storing of file descriptors (see
above).</para>
<varname>FDSTORE=1</varname> but the service is not actually configured to permit storing of file
descriptors (see above).</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
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<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
<xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="getenv"/>
<para>These functions send a single datagram with the
state string as payload to the socket referenced in the
<varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> environment variable. If the
first character of <varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> is
<literal>/</literal> or <literal>@</literal>, the string is understood
as an <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> or Linux abstract namespace socket
(respectively), and in both cases the datagram is accompanied by the
process credentials of the sending service, using SCM_CREDENTIALS. If
the string starts with <literal>vsock:</literal> then the string is
understood as an <constant>AF_VSOCK</constant> address, which is useful
for hypervisors/VMMs or other processes on the host to receive a
notification when a virtual machine has finished booting. Note that in
case the hypervisor does not support <constant>SOCK_DGRAM</constant>
over <constant>AF_VSOCK</constant>, <constant>SOCK_SEQPACKET</constant>
will be used instead. The address should be in the form:
<literal>vsock:CID:PORT</literal>. Note that unlike other uses of vsock,
the CID is mandatory and cannot be <literal>VMADDR_CID_ANY</literal>.
Note that PID1 will send the VSOCK packets from a privileged port
(i.e.: lower than 1024), as an attempt to address concerns that unprivileged
processes in the guest might try to send malicious notifications to the
host, driving it to make destructive decisions based on them.</para>
<para>These functions send a single datagram with the state string as payload to the socket referenced in
the <varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> environment variable. If the first character of
<varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> is <literal>/</literal> or <literal>@</literal>, the string is
understood as an <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> or Linux abstract namespace socket (respectively), and in
both cases the datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of the sending service, using
SCM_CREDENTIALS. If the string starts with <literal>vsock:</literal> then the string is understood as an
<constant>AF_VSOCK</constant> address, which is useful for hypervisors/VMMs or other processes on the
host to receive a notification when a virtual machine has finished booting. Note that in case the
hypervisor does not support <constant>SOCK_DGRAM</constant> over <constant>AF_VSOCK</constant>,
<constant>SOCK_SEQPACKET</constant> will be used instead. The address should be in the form:
<literal>vsock:CID:PORT</literal>. Note that unlike other uses of vsock, the CID is mandatory and cannot
be <literal>VMADDR_CID_ANY</literal>. Note that PID1 will send the VSOCK packets from a privileged port
(i.e.: lower than 1024), as an attempt to address concerns that unprivileged processes in the guest might
try to send malicious notifications to the host, driving it to make destructive decisions based on
them.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
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<varlistentry>
<term><varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Set by the service manager for supervised
processes for status and start-up completion notification.
This environment variable specifies the socket
<function>sd_notify()</function> talks to. See above for
details.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Set by the service manager for supervised processes for status and start-up
completion notification. This environment variable specifies the socket
<function>sd_notify()</function> talks to. See above for details.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
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<example>
<title>Start-up Notification</title>
<para>When a service finished starting up, it might issue the
following call to notify the service manager:</para>
<para>When a service finished starting up, it might issue the following call to notify the service
manager:</para>
<programlisting>sd_notify(0, "READY=1");</programlisting>
</example>
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<example>
<title>Extended Start-up Notification</title>
<para>A service could send the following after completing
initialization:</para>
<para>A service could send the following after completing initialization:</para>
<programlisting>
sd_notifyf(0, "READY=1\n"
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<example>
<title>Store a File Descriptor in the Service Manager</title>
<para>To store an open file descriptor in the service manager,
in order to continue operation after a service restart without
losing state, use <literal>FDSTORE=1</literal>:</para>
<para>To store an open file descriptor in the service manager, in order to continue operation after a
service restart without losing state, use <literal>FDSTORE=1</literal>:</para>
<programlisting>sd_pid_notify_with_fds(0, 0, "FDSTORE=1\nFDNAME=foobar", &amp;fd, 1);</programlisting>
</example>
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<example>
<title>Eliminating race conditions</title>
<para>When the client sending the notifications is not spawned
by the service manager, it may exit too quickly and the service
manager may fail to attribute them correctly to the unit. To
prevent such races, use <function>sd_notify_barrier()</function>
to synchronize against reception of all notifications sent before
this call is made.</para>
<para>When the client sending the notifications is not spawned by the service manager, it may exit too
quickly and the service manager may fail to attribute them correctly to the unit. To prevent such
races, use <function>sd_notify_barrier()</function> to synchronize against reception of all
notifications sent before this call is made.</para>
<programlisting>
sd_notify(0, "READY=1");