systemd/man/sd_bus_set_close_on_exit.xml
Lennart Poettering c4e48030cf sd-bus: make "close+flush-on-exit" optional when using sd-event with sd-bus
This adds a new pair of API calls sd_bus_set_close_on_exit() and
sd_bus_get_close_on_exit(). They control whether an sd_bus object
attached to a an sd-event loop shall automatically be flushed/closed
when the event loop goes down. Usually that's a good thing, except for
very few cases where the bus connection is longer living than the event
loop it is attached on. Specifically, this is the case for nspawn, where
we run the event loop only while the container is up, but afterwards
still want to be able to use the bus connection.
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<refentry id="sd_bus_set_close_on_exit"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_bus_set_close_on_exit</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sd_bus_set_close_on_exit</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_bus_set_close_on_exit</refname>
<refname>sd_bus_get_close_on_exit</refname>
<refpurpose>Control whether to close the bus connection during the event loop exit phase</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_set_close_on_exit</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>b</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_get_close_on_exit</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>sd_bus_set_close_on_exit()</function> may be used to enable or disable whether the bus connection
is automatically flushed (as in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_flush</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>) and closed (as in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_close</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>) during the exit
phase of the event loop. This logic only applies to bus connections that are attached to an
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> event loop, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_attach_event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. By default
this mechanism is enabled and makes sure that any pending messages that have not been written to the bus connection
are written out when the event loop is shutting down. In some cases this behaviour is not desirable, for example
when the bus connection shall remain usable until after the event loop exited. If <parameter>b</parameter> is
true, the feature is enabled (which is the default), otherwise disabled.</para>
<para><function>sd_bus_get_close_on_exit()</function> may be used to query the current setting of this feature. It
returns zero when the feature is disabled, and positive if enabled.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para>On success, <function>sd_bus_set_close_on_exit()</function> returns 0 or a positive integer. On failure, it returns a negative errno-style
error code.</para>
<para><function>sd_bus_get_close_on_exit()</function> returns 0 if the feature is currently turned off or a
positive integer if it is on. 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>-ECHILD</constant></term>
<listitem><para>The bus connection has been created in a different process.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_flush</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_attach_event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_add_exit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>