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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_bus_request_name">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>sd_bus_request_name</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_bus_request_name</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>sd_bus_request_name</refname>
+ <refname>sd_bus_release_name</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Request or release a well-known service name on a bus</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <funcsynopsis>
+ <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_request_name</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>name</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>uint64_t <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_release_name</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>name</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+ </funcsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> requests a
+ well-known service name on a bus. It takes a bus connection, a
+ valid bus name and a flags parameter. The flags parameter is a
+ combination of the following flags:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>After acquiring the name successfully, permit
+ other peers to take over the name when they try to acquire it
+ with the <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</varname> flag
+ set. If <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</varname> is
+ not set on the original request, such a request by other peers
+ will be denied.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Take over the name if it is already acquired
+ by another peer, and that other peer has permitted takeover by
+ setting <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</varname> while
+ acquiring it.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>SD_BUS_NAME_QUEUE</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Queue the acquisition of the name when the
+ name is already taken.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_release_name()</function> releases an
+ acquired well-known name. It takes a bus connection and a valid
+ bus name as parameters.</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>
+
+ <para>If <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_QUEUE</varname> is specified,
+ <function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> will return 0 when the
+ name is already taken by another peer and the client has been
+ added to the queue for the name. In that case, the caller can
+ subscribe to <literal>NameOwnerChanged</literal> signals to be
+ notified when the name is successfully acquired.
+ <function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> returns &gt; 0 when the
+ name has immediately been acquired successfully.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Errors</title>
+
+ <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EALREADY</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>The caller already is the owner of the
+ specified name.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EEXIST</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>The name has already been acquired by a
+ different peer, and SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING was not
+ specified or the other peer did not specify
+ SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT while acquiring the
+ name.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-ESRCH</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>It was attempted to release a name that is
+ currently not registered on the bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EADDRINUSE</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>It was attempted to release a name that is
+ owned by a different peer on the bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>A specified parameter is invalid. This is also
+ generated when the requested name is a special service name
+ reserved by the D-Bus specification, or when the operation is
+ requested on a connection that does not refer to a
+ bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-ENOTCONN</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>The bus connection has been
+ disconnected.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-ECHILD</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>The bus connection has been created in a
+ different process than the current one.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+
+ <para>The <function>sd_bus_acquire_name()</function> and
+ <function>sd_bus_release_name()</function> interfaces 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_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>