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diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml
index 1b5568074..6bf823076 100644
--- a/man/sd_notify.xml
+++ b/man/sd_notify.xml
@@ -8,20 +8,21 @@
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 .
-->
-
+
sd_notify
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@
sd_notify
sd_notifyf
- Notify init system about start-up completion and other daemon status changes
+ Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes
@@ -77,9 +78,9 @@
notification.
If the unset_environment
- parameter is non-zero sd_notify()
+ 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
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@
processes.
The state parameter
- should contain an newline-separated list of variable
+ should contain a 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
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@
definition file has Type=notify
set. The passed argument is a boolean
"1" or "0". Since there is little
- value in signalling non-readiness, the
+ value in signaling non-readiness, the
only value daemons should send is
"READY=1".
@@ -151,6 +152,29 @@
itself. Example:
"MAINPID=4711"
+
+
+ WATCHDOG=1
+
+ Tells systemd to
+ update the watchdog timestamp. This is
+ the keep-alive ping that services need
+ to issue in regular intervals if
+ WatchdogSec= is
+ enabled for it. See
+ systemd.service5
+ for details. It is recommended to send
+ this message if the
+ $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.
+
It is recommended to prefix variable names that
@@ -166,7 +190,7 @@
for details.
sd_notifyf() is similar to
- sd_notifyf() but takes a
+ sd_notify() but takes a
printf()-like format string plus
arguments.
@@ -178,64 +202,33 @@
errno-style error code. If
$NOTIFY_SOCKET was not set and
hence no status data could be sent, 0 is returned. If
- the status was sent these functions return with a
+ the status was sent, these functions return with a
positive return value. In order to support both, init
systems that implement this scheme and those which
- don't, it is generally recommended to ignore the return
+ do not, it is generally recommended to ignore the return
value of this call.
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
- AF_UNIX socket referenced in the
+ AF_UNIX socket referenced in the
$NOTIFY_SOCKET environment
variable. If the first character of
- $NOTIFY_SOCKET is @ the string is
+ $NOTIFY_SOCKET is @, the string is
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:
-
- resp.
-
- 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_daemon7.
-
- 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.
Environment
-
+
$NOTIFY_SOCKET
@@ -291,9 +284,10 @@
See Also
systemd1,
- sd_daemon7,
+ sd-daemon3,
daemon7,
- systemd.service5
+ systemd.service5,
+ sd_watchdog_enabled3