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diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml
index 683967cd4..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
@@ -211,13 +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
@@ -228,30 +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.