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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-01-03 20:51:38 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-01-03 21:08:58 +0100
commit9847946e12479b27d3ebfd024f00a6ac33ce73d3 (patch)
tree87f0a00bb27047fd8be8f0d30c0c87f880d4a373 /man
parentb72491a2fd8c237299055c636d4f748bca2b4b1f (diff)
login: introduce sd_pid_get_service()
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/sd_pid_get_session.xml40
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml b/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
index 24e468015f..4086c5a826 100644
--- a/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
+++ b/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_pid_get_session</refname>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_service</refname>
<refname>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</refname>
- <refpurpose>Determine session or owner of a session of a specific PID</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Determine session, service or owner of a session of a specific PID</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -59,6 +60,12 @@
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_service</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char** <parameter>service</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>uid_t* <parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
@@ -75,11 +82,23 @@
identifier. The session identifier is a short string,
suitable for usage in file system paths. Note that not
all processes are part of a login session (e.g. system
- service processes and user processes that are shared
- between multiple sessions of the same user). For
- processes not being part of a login session this
- function will fail. The returned string needs to be
- freed with the libc
+ service processes, user processes that are shared
+ between multiple sessions of the same user, or kernel
+ threads). For processes not being part of a login
+ session this function will fail. The returned string
+ needs to be freed with the libc
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ call after use.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_pid_get_service()</function> may be
+ used to determine the system service identifier of a
+ process identified by the specified process
+ identifier. The service name is a short string,
+ suitable for usage in file system paths. Note that not
+ all processes are part of a service (e.g. user
+ processes, or kernel threads). For processes not being
+ part of a system service this function will fail. The
+ returned string needs to be freed with the libc
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
call after use.</para>
@@ -106,10 +125,11 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>The <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>
- and <function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function>
- interfaces are available as shared library, which can
- be compiled and linked to with the
+ <para>The <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>,
+ <function>sd_pid_get_service()</function>, and
+ <function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function> interfaces
+ are available as shared library, which can be compiled
+ and linked to with the
<literal>libsystemd-login</literal>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>