along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-->
-<refentry id="sd_pid_get_session">
+<refentry id="sd_pid_get_session" conditional='HAVE_PAM'>
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_pid_get_session</title>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_pid_get_session</refname>
<refname>sd_pid_get_unit</refname>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_user_unit</refname>
<refname>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</refname>
- <refpurpose>Determine session, service or owner of a session of a specific PID</refpurpose>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_machine_name</refname>
+ <refname>sd_pid_get_slice</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Determine session, service, owner of a
+ session, container/VM or slice of a specific
+ PID</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<paramdef>char** <parameter>unit</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_user_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>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_machine_name</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char** <parameter>name</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_slice</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char** <parameter>slice</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
call after use.</para>
<para><function>sd_pid_get_unit()</function> may be
- used to determine the systemd unit (i.e. system
+ used to determine the systemd system 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
+ specified PID. The unit name is a short string,
+ suitable for usage in file system paths. Note that not
+ all processes are part of a system 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
+ processes not being part of a systemd system unit this
+ function will fail. (More specifically: this call will
+ not work for processes that are part of user units,
+ use <function>sd_pid_get_user_unit()</function> for
+ that.) 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_user_unit()</function> may
+ be used to determine the systemd user unit (i.e. user
+ service) identifier of a process identified by the
+ specified PID. This is similar to
+ <function>sd_pid_get_unit()</function> but applies to
+ user units instead of system units.</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
and not being a shared process of a user this function
will fail.</para>
- <para>If the <literal>pid</literal> paramater of any
- of these functions is passed as 0 the operation is
+ <para><function>sd_pid_get_machine_name()</function>
+ may be used to determine the name of the VM or
+ container is a member of. The machine name is a short
+ string, suitable for usage in file system paths. 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_slice()</function> may be
+ used to determine the slice unit the process is a
+ member of. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ for details about slices. The returned string needs to
+ be freed with the libc
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ call after use.</para>
+
+ <para>If the <varname>pid</varname> 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
+ <para>On success, these calls return 0 or a positive
integer. On failure, these calls return a negative
errno-style error code.</para>
</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>
+ <function>sd_pid_get_unit()</function>,
+ <function>sd_pid_get_user_unit()</function>,
+ <function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function>,
+ <function>sd_pid_get_machine_name()</function> and
+ <function>sd_pid_get_slice()</function> interfaces are
+ available as shared library, which can be compiled and
+ linked to with the
+ <constant>libsystemd-login</constant> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
<para>Note that the login session identifier as
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</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>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
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