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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-09-22 21:13:41 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2011-09-22 21:16:52 +0200
commit71e6c1cf47c35cc5a58cefaabe4f6848d6f09501 (patch)
treea45323ff6aa1a6263ba41a16473c553376cbb383 /man/sd_notify.xml
parent5375410bb2ed11a6a9e37063c0a551a7bf75338f (diff)
man: document that sd-daemon.[ch] is now available as shared library
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diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml
index c060bbad27..dd0ba935d6 100644
--- a/man/sd_notify.xml
+++ b/man/sd_notify.xml
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of
the sending daemon, using SCM_CREDENTIALS.</para>
- <para>For details about the algorithm check the
+ <para>For details about the algorithms check the
liberally licensed reference implementation sources:
<ulink url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/tree/src/sd-daemon.c"/>
resp. <ulink
@@ -214,17 +214,22 @@
<para><function>sd_notify()</function> and
<function>sd_notifyf()</function> are implemented in
- the reference implementation's drop-in
+ the reference implementation's
<filename>sd-daemon.c</filename> and
- <filename>sd-daemon.h</filename> files. It is
- recommended that applications consuming these APIs
- copy the implementation into their source tree. For
+ <filename>sd-daemon.h</filename> files. These
+ interfaces are available as shared library, which can
+ be compiled and linked to with the
+ <literal>libsystemd-daemon</literal>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ file. Alternatively, applications consuming these APIs
+ may copy the implementation into their source tree. For
more details about the reference implementation see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
- <para>If -DDISABLE_SYSTEMD is set during compilation
- this function will always return 0 and otherwise
- become a NOP.</para>
+ <para>If the reference implementation is used as
+ drop-in files and -DDISABLE_SYSTEMD is set during
+ compilation these functions will always return 0 and
+ otherwise become a NOP.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>