X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsd_notify.xml;h=6bf823076332871f64bbf94c9b99b278f94a76cd;hp=55965ffce4e999d9f0a1b34e1b674683976cf497;hb=dfc87cbfe5ec03190e5b2235b1ed477db11541ca;hpb=79640424059328268b9fb6c5fa8eb777b27a177e diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml index 55965ffce..6bf823076 100644 --- a/man/sd_notify.xml +++ b/man/sd_notify.xml @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see . --> - + sd_notify @@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ If the unset_environment parameter is non-zero, sd_notify() will unset the $NOTIFY_SOCKET - environment variable before returning (regardless + environment variable before returning (regardless of whether the function call itself succeeded or not). Further calls to sd_notify() will then fail, but @@ -164,11 +165,15 @@ systemd.service5 for details. It is recommended to send this message if the - WATCHDOG_USEC= - environment variable has been set for - the service process, in every half the - time interval that is specified in the - variable. + $WATCHDOG_PID + environment variable has been set to + the PID of the service process, in + every half the time interval that is + specified in the + $WATCHDOG_USEC + environment variable. See + sd_watchdog_enabled3 + for details. @@ -207,13 +212,7 @@ Notes - These functions are provided by the reference - implementation of APIs for new-style daemons and - distributed with the systemd package. The algorithms - they implement are simple, and can easily be - reimplemented in daemons if it is important to support - this interface without using the reference - implementation. + Internally, these functions send a single datagram with the state string as payload to the @@ -224,30 +223,6 @@ understood as Linux abstract namespace socket. The datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of the sending daemon, using SCM_CREDENTIALS. - - For details about the algorithms check the - liberally licensed reference implementation sources: - - and - - sd_notify() and - sd_notifyf() are implemented in - the reference implementation's - sd-daemon.c and - 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-daemon3. - - 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. @@ -311,7 +286,8 @@ systemd1, sd-daemon3, daemon7, - systemd.service5 + systemd.service5, + sd_watchdog_enabled3