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-<refentry id="sd_bus_message_append_array"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
-
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>sd_bus_message_append_array</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
- <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
- <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
- <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_append_array</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>sd_bus_message_append_array</refname>
- <refname>sd_bus_message_append_array_memfd</refname>
- <refname>sd_bus_message_append_array_iovec</refname>
- <refname>sd_bus_message_append_array_space</refname>
-
- <refpurpose>Append an array of fields to a D-Bus
- message</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <funcsynopsis>
- <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
-
- <funcprototype>
- <funcdef>int sd_bus_message_append_array</funcdef>
- <paramdef>sd_bus_message *<parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>char <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>char void *<parameter>ptr</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>size_t <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>
- </funcprototype>
-
- <funcprototype>
- <funcdef>int sd_bus_message_append_array_memfd</funcdef>
- <paramdef>sd_bus_message *<parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>char <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>int <parameter>memfd</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>uint64_t <parameter>offset</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>uint64_t <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>
- </funcprototype>
-
- <funcprototype>
- <funcdef>int sd_bus_message_append_array_iovec</funcdef>
- <paramdef>sd_bus_message *<parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>char <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>const struct iovec *<parameter>iov</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>unsigned <parameter>n</parameter></paramdef>
- </funcprototype>
-
- <funcprototype>
- <funcdef>int sd_bus_message_append_array_space</funcdef>
- <paramdef>char <parameter>type</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>size_t <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>void **<parameter>ptr</parameter></paramdef>
- </funcprototype>
- </funcsynopsis>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
-
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_message_append_array()</function>
- function appends an array to a D-Bus message
- <parameter>m</parameter>. A container will be opened, the array
- contents appended, and the container closed. The parameter
- <parameter>type</parameter> determines how the pointer
- <parameter>p</parameter> is interpreted.
- <parameter>type</parameter> must be one of the "trivial" types
- <literal>y</literal>, <literal>n</literal>, <literal>q</literal>,
- <literal>i</literal>, <literal>u</literal>, <literal>x</literal>,
- <literal>t</literal>, <literal>d</literal> (but not
- <literal>b</literal>), as defined by the <ulink
- url="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#basic-types">Basic
- Types</ulink> section of the D-Bus specification, and listed in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_append_basic</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- Pointer <parameter>p</parameter> must point to an array of size
- <parameter>size</parameter> bytes containing items of the
- respective type. Size <parameter>size</parameter> must be a
- multiple of the size of the type <parameter>type</parameter>. As a
- special case, <parameter>p</parameter> may be
- <constant>NULL</constant>, if <parameter>size</parameter> is 0.
- The memory pointed to by <parameter>p</parameter> is copied into
- the memory area containing the message and stays in possession of
- the caller. The caller may hence freely change the data after this
- call without affecting the message the array was appended
- to.</para>
-
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_message_append_array_memfd()</function>
- function appends an array of a trivial type to message
- <parameter>m</parameter>, similar to
- <function>sd_bus_message_append_array()</function>. The contents
- of the memory file descriptor <parameter>memfd</parameter>
- starting at the specified offset and of the specified size is
- used as the contents of the array. The offset and size must be a
- multiple of the size of the type
- <parameter>type</parameter>. However, as a special exception, if
- the offset is specified as zero and the size specified as
- UINT64_MAX the full memory file descriptor contents is used. The
- memory file descriptor is sealed by this call if it has not been
- sealed yet, and cannot be modified after this call. See
- <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>memfd_create</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for details about memory file descriptors. Appending arrays with
- memory file descriptors enables efficient zero-copy data transfer,
- as the memory file descriptor may be passed as-is to the
- destination, without copying the memory in it to the destination
- process. Not all protocol transports support passing memory file
- descriptors between participants, in which case this call will
- automatically fall back to copying. Also, as memory file
- descriptor passing is inefficient for smaller amounts of data,
- copying might still be enforced even where memory file descriptor
- passing is supported.</para>
-
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_message_append_array_iovec()</function>
- function appends an array of a trivial type to the message
- <parameter>m</parameter>, similar to
- <function>sd_bus_message_append_array()</function>. Contents of
- the I/O vector array <parameter>iov</parameter> are used as the
- contents of the array. The total size of
- <parameter>iov</parameter> payload (the sum of
- <structfield>iov_len</structfield> fields) must be a multiple of
- the size of the type <parameter>type</parameter>. The
- <parameter>iov</parameter> argument must point to
- <parameter>n</parameter> I/O vector structures. Each structure may
- have the <structname>iov_base</structname> field set, in which
- case the memory pointed to will be copied into the message, or
- unset (set to zero), in which case a block of zeros of length
- <structname>iov_len</structname> bytes will be inserted. The
- memory pointed at by <parameter>iov</parameter> may be changed
- after this call.</para>
-
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_message_append_array_space()</function>
- function appends space for an array of a trivial type to message
- <parameter>m</parameter>. It behaves the same as
- <function>sd_bus_message_append_array()</function>, but instead of
- copying items to the message, it returns a pointer to the
- destination area to the caller in pointer
- <parameter>p</parameter>. The caller should subsequently write the
- array contents to this memory. Modifications to the memory
- pointed to should only occur until the next operation on the bus
- message is invoked. Most importantly, the memory should not be
- altered anymore when another field has been added to the message
- or the message has been sealed.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Return Value</title>
-
- <para>On success, these calls return 0 or a positive integer. On
- failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <xi:include href="sd_bus_message_append_basic.xml" xpointer="errors" />
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Notes</title>
-
- <para><function>sd_bus_append_array()</function> and other
- functions described here are available as a shared library, which
- can be compiled and linked to with the
- <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- file.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <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_message_append</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_append_basic</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>memfd_create</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <ulink url="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html">The D-Bus specification</ulink>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
-</refentry>