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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_pid_get_session">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>sd_pid_get_session</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_pid_get_session</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_session</refname>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_unit</refname>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Determine session, service or owner of a session of a specific PID</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <funcsynopsis>
+ <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-login.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_session</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char** <parameter>session</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_unit</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char** <parameter>unit</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>
+ </funcprototype>
+ </funcsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> may be
+ used to determine the login session identifier of a
+ process identified by the specified process
+ 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, 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_unit()</function> may be
+ used to determine the systemd unit (i.e. system
+ service) identifier of a process identified by the
+ specified process identifier. The unit name is a short
+ string, suitable for usage in file system paths. Note
+ that not all processes are part of a unit/service
+ (e.g. user processes, or kernel threads). For
+ processes not being part of a systemd unit/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>
+
+ <para><function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function> may
+ be used to determine the Unix user identifier of the
+ owner of the session of a process identified the
+ specified PID. Note that this function will succeed
+ for user processes which are shared between multiple
+ login sessions of the same user, where
+ <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> will
+ fail. For processes not being part of a login session
+ and not being a shared process of a user this function
+ will fail.</para>
+
+ <para>If the <literal>pid</literal> parameter of any
+ of these functions is passed as 0 the operation is
+ executed for the calling process.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Return Value</title>
+
+ <para>On success these calls return 0 or a positive
+ integer. On failure, these calls return a negative
+ errno-style error code.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+
+ <para>The <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>,
+ <function>sd_pid_get_pid()</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>
+
+ <para>Note that the login session identifier as
+ returned by <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>
+ is completely unrelated to the process session
+ identifier as returned by
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_session_is_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>