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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
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+
+<refentry id="sd_login_monitor_new">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>sd_login_monitor_new</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+ <surname>Poettering</surname>
+ <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>sd_login_monitor_new</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>sd_login_monitor_new</refname>
+ <refname>sd_login_monitor_unref</refname>
+ <refname>sd_login_monitor_flush</refname>
+ <refname>sd_login_monitor_get_fd</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Monitor login sessions, seats and users</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <funcsynopsis>
+ <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-login.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_login_monitor_new</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const char* <parameter>category</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_login_monitor** <parameter>ret</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>sd_login_monitor* <function>sd_login_monitor_unref</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_login_monitor* <parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_login_monitor_flush</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_login_monitor* <parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_login_monitor_get_fd</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_login_monitor* <parameter>m</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ </funcsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><function>sd_login_monitor_new()</function> may
+ be used to monitor login session, users and seats. Via
+ a monitor object a file descriptor can be integrated
+ into an application defined event loop which is woken
+ up each time a user logs in, logs out or a seat is
+ added or removed, or a session, user, or seat changes
+ state otherwise. The first parameter takes a string
+ which can be either <literal>seat</literal> (to get
+ only notifications about seats being added, removed or
+ changed), <literal>session</literal> (to get only
+ notifications about sessions being created or removed
+ or changed) or <literal>uid</literal> (to get only
+ notifications when a user changes state in respect to
+ logins). If notifications shall be generated in all
+ these conditions, NULL may be passed. Note that in
+ future additional categories may be defined. The
+ second parameter returns a monitor object and needs to
+ be freed with the
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_unref()</function> call
+ after use.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_login_monitor_unref()</function>
+ may be used to destroy a monitor object. Note that
+ this will invalidate any file descriptor returned by
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_get_fd()</function>.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_login_monitor_flush()</function>
+ may be used to reset the wakeup state of the monitor
+ object. Whenever an event causes the monitor to wake
+ up the event loop via the file descriptor this
+ function needs to be called to reset the wake-up
+ state. If this call is not invoked the file descriptor
+ will immediately wake up the event loop again.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_login_monitor_get_fd()</function>
+ may be used to retrieve the file descriptor of the
+ monitor object that may be integrated in an
+ application defined event loop, based around
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>poll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ or a similar interface. The application should include
+ the returned file descriptor as wake up source for
+ POLLIN events. Whenever a wake-up is triggered the
+ file descriptor needs to be reset via
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_flush()</function>. An
+ application needs to reread the login state with a
+ function like
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_get_seats</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ or similar to determine what changed.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Return Value</title>
+
+ <para>On success
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_new()</function> and
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_flush()</function> return 0
+ or a positive integer. On success
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_get_fd()</function> returns
+ a Unix file descriptor. On failure, these calls return
+ a negative errno-style error code.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_login_monitor_unref()</function>
+ always returns NULL.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+
+ <para>The <function>sd_login_monitor_new()</function>,
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_unref()</function>, <function>sd_login_monitor_flush()</function> and
+ <function>sd_login_monitor_get_fd()</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>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_get_seats</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>