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8 Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering
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24 <refentry id=
"sd_journal_stream_fd">
27 <title>sd_journal_stream_fd
</title>
28 <productname>systemd
</productname>
32 <contrib>Developer
</contrib>
33 <firstname>Lennart
</firstname>
34 <surname>Poettering
</surname>
35 <email>lennart@poettering.net
</email>
41 <refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd
</refentrytitle>
42 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
46 <refname>sd_journal_stream_fd
</refname>
47 <refpurpose>Create log stream file descriptor to the journal
</refpurpose>
52 <funcsynopsisinfo>#include
<systemd/sd-journal.h
></funcsynopsisinfo>
55 <funcdef>int
<function>sd_journal_stream_fd
</function></funcdef>
56 <paramdef>const char *
<parameter>identifier
</parameter></paramdef>
57 <paramdef>int
<parameter>priority
</parameter></paramdef>
58 <paramdef>int
<parameter>level_prefix
</parameter></paramdef>
65 <title>Description
</title>
67 <para><function>sd_journal_stream_fd()
</function> may be used to
68 create a log stream file descriptor. Log messages written to this
69 file descriptor as simple newline-separated text strings are
70 written to the journal. This file descriptor can be used
71 internally by applications or be made standard output or standard
72 error of other processes executed.
</para>
74 <para><function>sd_journal_stream_fd()
</function> takes a short
75 program identifier string as first argument, which will be written
76 to the journal as _SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER= field for each log entry
78 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
79 for more information). The second argument shall be the default
80 priority level for all messages. The priority level is one of
81 <constant>LOG_EMERG
</constant>,
<constant>LOG_ALERT
</constant>,
82 <constant>LOG_CRIT
</constant>,
<constant>LOG_ERR
</constant>,
83 <constant>LOG_WARNING
</constant>,
<constant>LOG_NOTICE
</constant>,
84 <constant>LOG_INFO
</constant>,
<constant>LOG_DEBUG
</constant>, as
85 defined in
<filename>syslog.h
</filename>, see
86 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>syslog
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
87 for details. The third argument is a boolean: if true kernel-style
88 log level prefixes (such as
<constant>SD_WARNING
</constant>) are
90 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
91 for more information.
</para>
93 <para>It is recommended that applications log UTF-
8 messages only
94 with this API, but this is not enforced.
</para>
98 <title>Return Value
</title>
100 <para>The call returns a valid write-only file descriptor on
101 success or a negative errno-style error code.
</para>
107 <para>Function
<function>sd_journal_stream_fd()
</function> is thread-safe and may be be called
108 from multiple threads. All calls will return the same file descriptor, although temporarily
109 multiple file descriptors may be open.
</para>
111 <para>The
<function>sd_journal_stream_fd()
</function> interface is
112 available as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to
114 <constant>libsystemd
</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'
><refentrytitle>pkg-config
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
119 <title>Examples
</title>
121 <para>Creating a log stream suitable for
122 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>fprintf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>:
</para>
124 <programlisting>#include
<syslog.h
>
125 #include
<stdio.h
>
126 #include
<string.h
>
127 #include
<unistd.h
>
128 #include
<systemd/sd-journal.h
>
129 #include
<systemd/sd-daemon.h
>
131 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
134 fd = sd_journal_stream_fd(
"test", LOG_INFO,
1);
136 fprintf(stderr,
"Failed to create stream fd: %s\n", strerror(-fd));
139 log = fdopen(fd,
"w");
141 fprintf(stderr,
"Failed to create file object: %m\n");
145 fprintf(log,
"Hello World!\n");
146 fprintf(log, SD_WARNING
"This is a warning!\n");
154 <title>See Also
</title>
157 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
158 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
159 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
160 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
161 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>syslog
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
162 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>fprintf
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
163 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>