X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsd_listen_fds.xml;h=6a9e082180670dd1a8f8209083b331606f6f9178;hp=68a45cd7668b4124244425934c6d14008f4ad356;hb=deb480d1a7c3f3178c44f0aa73765181c0e2317f;hpb=a822cbfa2e42d60c3cafe724a8571329ab6c632e diff --git a/man/sd_listen_fds.xml b/man/sd_listen_fds.xml index 68a45cd76..6a9e08218 100644 --- a/man/sd_listen_fds.xml +++ b/man/sd_listen_fds.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 . --> @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ sd_listen_fds - Check for file descriptors passed by the init system. + SD_LISTEN_FDS_START + Check for file descriptors passed by the system manager @@ -69,10 +70,10 @@ activation logic. If the unset_environment - parameter is non-zero + parameter is non-zero, sd_listen_fds() will unset the $LISTEN_FDS/$LISTEN_PID - environment variables before returning (regardless + environment variables before returning (regardless of whether the function call itself succeeded or not). Further calls to sd_listen_fds() will then fail, @@ -82,16 +83,16 @@ If a daemon receives more than one file descriptor, they will be passed in the same order as configured in the systemd socket definition - file. Nonetheless it is recommended to verify the + file. Nonetheless, it is recommended to verify the correct socket types before using them. To simplify - this checking the functions + this checking, the functions sd_is_fifo3, sd_is_socket3, sd_is_socket_inet3, sd_is_socket_unix3 - are provided. In order to maximize flexibility it is + are provided. In order to maximize flexibility, it is recommended to make these checks as loose as possible - without allowing incorrect setups. i.e. often the + without allowing incorrect setups. i.e. often, the actual port number a socket is bound to matters little for the service to work, hence it should not be verified. On the other hand, whether a socket is a @@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ $LISTEN_FDS/$LISTEN_PID was not set or was not correctly set for this daemon and hence no file descriptors were received, 0 is - returned. Otherwise the number of file descriptors + returned. Otherwise, the number of file descriptors passed is returned. The application may find them starting with file descriptor SD_LISTEN_FDS_START, i.e. file descriptor 3. @@ -131,43 +132,42 @@ Internally, this function checks whether the $LISTEN_PID environment variable equals the daemon PID. If not, it returns - immediately. Otherwise it parses the number passed in + immediately. Otherwise, it parses the number passed in the $LISTEN_FDS environment variable, then sets the FD_CLOEXEC flag for the parsed number of file descriptors starting from - SD_LISTEN_FDS_START. Finally it returns the parsed + SD_LISTEN_FDS_START. Finally, it returns the parsed number. For details about the algorithm check the liberally licensed reference implementation sources: - - resp. + + and sd_listen_fds() is implemented in the reference implementation's sd-daemon.c and sd-daemon.h files. These - interfaces are available as shared library, which can + interfaces are available as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the - libsystemd-daemon - pkg-config1 + 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. + implementation, see + sd-daemon3. If the reference implementation is used as drop-in files and -DDISABLE_SYSTEMD is set during - compilation this function will always return 0 and + compilation, this function will always return 0 and otherwise become a NOP. Environment - + $LISTEN_PID $LISTEN_FDS @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ systemd1, - sd-daemon7, + sd-daemon3, sd_is_fifo3, sd_is_socket3, sd_is_socket_inet3,