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-<refentry id="sd_seat_get_active">
+<refentry id="sd_seat_get_active" conditional='HAVE_PAM'>
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_seat_get_active</title>
<refname>sd_seat_get_active</refname>
<refname>sd_seat_get_sessions</refname>
<refname>sd_seat_can_multi_session</refname>
+ <refname>sd_seat_can_tty</refname>
+ <refname>sd_seat_can_graphical</refname>
<refpurpose>Determine state of a specific seat</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_get_active</function></funcdef>
- <paramdef>const char* <parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>char** <parameter>session</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>uid_t* <parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char **<parameter>session</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>uid_t *<parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_get_sessions</function></funcdef>
- <paramdef>const char* <parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>char*** <parameter>sessions</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>uid_t** <parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>unsigned* <parameter>n_uids</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char ***<parameter>sessions</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>uid_t **<parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>unsigned int *<parameter>n_uids</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_can_multi_session</function></funcdef>
- <paramdef>const char* <parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_can_tty</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_can_graphical</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
a seat, if there is any. Returns the session
identifier and the user identifier of the Unix user
the session is belonging to. Either the session or the
- user identifier parameter can be be passed NULL, in
- case only one of the parameters shall be queried. The
- returned string needs to be freed with the libc
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ user identifier parameter can be passed
+ <constant>NULL</constant>, in case only one of the
+ parameters shall be queried. The returned string needs
+ to be freed with the libc
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
call after use.</para>
<para><function>sd_seat_get_sessions()</function> may
be used to determine all sessions on the specified
- seat. Returns two arrays, one (NULL terminated) with
+ seat. Returns two arrays, one (<constant>NULL</constant> terminated) with
the session identifiers of the sessions and one with
the user identifiers of the Unix users the sessions
belong to. An additional parameter may be used to
return the number of entries in the latter array. The
two arrays and the latter parameter may be passed as
- NULL in case these values need not to be
+ <constant>NULL</constant> in case these values need not to be
determined. The arrays and the strings referenced by
them need to be freed with the libc
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
call after use. Note that instead of an empty array
- NULL may be returned and should be considered
+ <constant>NULL</constant> may be returned and should be considered
equivalent to an empty array.</para>
<para><function>sd_seat_can_multi_session()</function>
may be used to determine whether a specific seat is
capable of multi-session, i.e. allows multiple login
- sessions in parallel (whith only one being active at a
+ sessions in parallel (with only one being active at a
time).</para>
- <para>If the <literal>seat</literal> parameter of any
- of these functions is passed as NULL the operation is
- executed for the seat of the session of the calling
- process, if there is any.</para>
+ <para><function>sd_seat_can_tty()</function> may be
+ used to determine whether a specific seat provides TTY
+ functionality, i.e. is useful as a text console.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_seat_can_graphical()</function> may
+ be used to determine whether a specific seat provides
+ graphics functionality, i.e. is useful as a graphics
+ display.</para>
+
+ <para>If the <varname>seat</varname> parameter of any
+ of these functions is passed as
+ <constant>NULL</constant>, the operation is executed
+ for the seat of the session of the calling process, if
+ there is any.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
- <para> On success
- <function>sd_seat_get_active()</function> return
- return 0 or a positive integer. On success
+ <para> On success,
+ <function>sd_seat_get_active()</function>
+ returns 0 or a positive integer. On success,
<function>sd_seat_get_sessions()</function> returns
the number of entries in the session identifier
- array. If the test succeeds
- <function>sd_seat_can_multi_session</function> returns
- a positive integer, if it fails 0. On failure, these
+ array. If the test succeeds,
+ <function>sd_seat_can_multi_session</function>,
+ <function>sd_seat_can_tty</function> and
+ <function>sd_seat_can_graphical</function> return a
+ positive integer, if it fails 0. On failure, these
calls return a negative errno-style error code.</para>
</refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>The <function>sd_seat_get_active()</function>,
- <function>sd_seat_get_sessions()</function>, and
- <function>sd_seat_can_multi_session()</function> interfaces
- are available as shared library, which can be compiled
+ <function>sd_seat_get_sessions()</function>,
+ <function>sd_seat_can_multi_session()</function>,
+ <function>sd_seat_can_tty()</function> and
+ <function>sd_seat_can_grapical()</function> interfaces
+ are available as a shared library, which can be compiled
and linked to with the
- <literal>libsystemd-login</literal>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
</refsect1>
<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_get_seat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>