systemd/man/sd_event_get_fd.xml
Lennart Poettering 818bf54632 tree-wide: drop 'This file is part of systemd' blurb
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The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
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Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.

hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*- Mode: nxml; nxml-child-indent: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-->
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<!--
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
Copyright 2014 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
-->
<refentry id="sd_event_get_fd" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_event_get_fd</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>More text</contrib>
<firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
<surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
<email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sd_event_get_fd</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_event_get_fd</refname>
<refpurpose>Obtain a file descriptor to poll for event loop events</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-event.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_event_get_fd</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_event *<parameter>event</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>sd_event_get_fd()</function> returns the file
descriptor that an event loop object returned by the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
function uses to wait for events. This file descriptor may itself
be polled for
<constant>POLLIN</constant>/<constant>EPOLLIN</constant>
events. This makes it possible to embed an
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
event loop into another, possibly foreign, event loop.</para>
<para>The returned file descriptor refers to an <citerefentry
project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>epoll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
object. It is recommended not to alter it by invoking
<citerefentry
project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>epoll_ctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
on it, in order to avoid interference with the event loop's inner
logic and assumptions.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para>On success, <function>sd_event_get_fd()</function> returns a
non-negative file descriptor. On failure, it returns a negative
errno-style error code.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Errors</title>
<para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
<listitem><para><parameter>event</parameter> is not a valid
pointer to an <structname>sd_event</structname> structure.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><constant>-ECHILD</constant></term>
<listitem><para>The event loop has been created in a different process.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<example>
<title>Integration in the GLib event loop</title>
<programlisting><xi:include href="glib-event-glue.c" parse="text" /></programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_wait</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>epoll_ctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>epoll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>