The existing text misleads readers into thinking how the notify socket protocol is "internals" and that they can only use the functions. However, the socket is part of the Interface Stability Promise. So, we should drop "internally" from the description so the man page both indicates both how the functions work and how one would talk to the socket directly.
<xi:include href="libelogind-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
<xi:include href="libelogind-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
- <para>Internally, these functions send a single datagram with the
+ <para>These functions send a single datagram with the
state string as payload to the <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> socket
referenced in the <varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> environment
variable. If the first character of
state string as payload to the <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> socket
referenced in the <varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname> environment
variable. If the first character of
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