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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-02-19 18:19:06 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-02-19 18:20:12 +0100
commit26e3ff59a6a197e442255d8adfa2df239405c7e5 (patch)
tree5991297aa79b52be2ab69c64c0f6c42fae04643d /man/sd_notify.xml
parentadd00dfd1f050fab623f8aafd9afa1b72bc3aca1 (diff)
man: don't advertise sd-daemon as embeddable anymore
It's now part of libsystemd, and should be used like any other API.
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@@ -211,13 +211,10 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>These functions are provided by the reference
- implementation of APIs for new-style daemons and
- distributed with the systemd package. The algorithms
- they implement are simple, and can easily be
- reimplemented in daemons if it is important to support
- this interface without using the reference
- implementation.</para>
+ <para>These APIs are implemented as a shared library,
+ which can be compiled and linked to with the
+ <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ file.</para>
<para>Internally, these functions send a single
datagram with the state string as payload to the
@@ -228,30 +225,6 @@
understood as Linux abstract namespace socket. The
datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of
the sending daemon, using SCM_CREDENTIALS.</para>
-
- <para>For details about the algorithms check the
- liberally licensed reference implementation sources:
- <ulink url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/src/libsystemd-daemon/sd-daemon.c"/>
- and <ulink
- url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/src/systemd/sd-daemon.h"/></para>
-
- <para><function>sd_notify()</function> and
- <function>sd_notifyf()</function> are implemented in
- the reference implementation's
- <filename>sd-daemon.c</filename> and
- <filename>sd-daemon.h</filename> files. These
- interfaces are available as a shared library, which can
- be compiled and linked to with the
- <constant>libsystemd-daemon</constant> <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>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</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>