NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

int sd_bus_get_fd(sd_bus *bus);

int sd_bus_get_events(sd_bus *bus);

int sd_bus_get_timeout(sd_bus *bus, uint64_t *timeout_usec);

DESCRIPTION¶

sd_bus_get_events() returns the I/O events to wait for, suitable for passing to poll() or a similar call. Returns a combination of POLLIN, POLLOUT, ... events, or negative on error.

sd_bus_get_timeout() returns the time-out in µs to pass to to poll() or a similar call when waiting for events on the specified bus connection. The returned time-out may be zero, in which case a subsequent I/O polling call should be invoked in non-blocking mode. The returned timeout may be UINT64_MAX in which case the I/O polling call may block indefinitely, without any applied time-out. Note that the returned time-out should be considered only a maximum sleeping time. It is permissible (and even expected) that shorter time-outs are used by the calling program, in case other event sources are polled in the same event loop. Note that the returned time-value is relative and specified in microseconds. When converting this value in order to pass it as third argument to poll() (which expects milliseconds), care should be taken to use a division that rounds up to ensure the I/O polling operation doesn't sleep for shorter than necessary, which might result in unintended busy looping (alternatively, use ppoll(3) instead of plain poll(), which understands time-outs with nano-second granularity).

These three functions are useful to hook up a bus connection object with an external or manual event loop involving poll() or a similar I/O polling call. Before each invocation of the I/O polling call, all three functions should be invoked: the file descriptor returned by sd_bus_get_fd() should be polled for the events indicated by sd_bus_get_events(), and the I/O call should block for that up to the time-out returned by sd_bus_get_timeout(). After each I/O polling call the bus connection needs to process incoming or outgoing data, by invoking sd_bus_process(3).

Note that these function are only one of three supported ways to implement I/O event handling for bus connections. Alternatively use sd_bus_attach_event(3) to attach a bus connection to an sd-event(3) event loop. Or use sd_bus_wait(3) as a simple synchronous, blocking I/O waiting call.

RETURN VALUE¶

sd_bus_get_events() returns the I/O event mask to use for I/O event watching, or a negative errno-style error code on error.

sd_bus_get_timeout() returns zero or positive on success, or a negative errno-style error code on error.

ERRORS¶

-EINVAL

-ECHILD

-ENOTCONN

-EPERM

NOTES¶

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