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diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml
index 7c1d982d8..eb449555c 100644
--- a/man/sd_notify.xml
+++ b/man/sd_notify.xml
@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@
Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
- #include "sd-daemon.h"
+ #include <systemd/sd-daemon.h>
int sd_notify
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
processes.
The state parameter
- should contain an newline-seperated list of variable
+ should contain an newline-separated list of variable
assignments, similar in style to an environment
block. A trailing newline is implied if none is
specified. The string may contain any kind of variable
@@ -151,6 +151,18 @@
itself. Example:
"MAINPID=4711"
+
+
+ WATCHDOG=1
+
+ Tells systemd to
+ update the watchdog timestamp.
+ Services using this feature should do
+ this in regular intervals. A watchdog
+ framework can use the timestamps to
+ detect failed
+ services.
+
It is recommended to prefix variable names that
@@ -166,7 +178,7 @@
for details.
sd_notifyf() is similar to
- sd_notifyf() but takes a
+ sd_notify() but takes a
printf()-like format string plus
arguments.
@@ -206,25 +218,30 @@
datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of
the sending daemon, using SCM_CREDENTIALS.
- For details about the algorithm check the
+ For details about the algorithms check the
liberally licensed reference implementation sources:
-
+
resp.
+ url="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/src/systemd/sd-daemon.h"/>
sd_notify() and
sd_notifyf() are implemented in
- the reference implementation's drop-in
+ the reference implementation's
sd-daemon.c and
- sd-daemon.h files. It is
- recommended that applications consuming these APIs
- copy the implementation into their source tree. For
+ sd-daemon.h files. These
+ interfaces are available as shared library, which can
+ be compiled and linked to with the
+ libsystemd-daemon
+ pkg-config1
+ file. Alternatively, applications consuming these APIs
+ may copy the implementation into their source tree. For
more details about the reference implementation see
- sd_daemon7
+ sd_daemon7.
- If -DDISABLE_SYSTEMD is set during compilation
- this function will always return 0 and otherwise
- become a NOP.
+ If the reference implementation is used as
+ drop-in files and -DDISABLE_SYSTEMD is set during
+ compilation these functions will always return 0 and
+ otherwise become a NOP.