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-<refentry id="sd_bus_request_name">
+<refentry id="sd_bus_request_name"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_bus_request_name</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include <systemd/sd-bus.h></funcsynopsisinfo>
+ <xi:include href="sd_bus_add_match.xml" xpointer="sd_bus_message_handler_t"/>
+
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_request_name</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para><function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> requests a well-known service name on a bus. It takes a bus
- connection, a valid bus name and a flags parameter. The flags parameter is a combination of the following
- flags:</para>
+ <para><function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> requests a well-known service name on a bus. It takes a
+ bus connection, a valid bus name, and a flags parameter. The flags parameter is a combination of zero or
+ more of the following flags:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><varname>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</varname></term>
+ <term><constant>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</constant></term>
<listitem><para>After acquiring the name successfully, permit other peers to take over the name when they try
- to acquire it with the <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</varname> flag set. If
- <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</varname> is not set on the original request, such a request by other
- peers will be denied.</para></listitem>
+ to acquire it with the <constant>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</constant> flag set. If
+ <constant>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</constant> is not set on the original request, such a request by other
+ peers will be denied.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v209"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><varname>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</varname></term>
+ <term><constant>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</constant></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Take over the name if it was already acquired by another peer, and that other peer
+ has permitted takeover by setting <constant>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</constant> while acquiring
+ it.</para>
- <listitem><para>Take over the name if it is already acquired by another peer, and that other peer has permitted
- takeover by setting <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT</varname> while acquiring it.</para></listitem>
+ <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v209"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><varname>SD_BUS_NAME_QUEUE</varname></term>
+ <term><constant>SD_BUS_NAME_QUEUE</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>Queue the acquisition of the name when the name is already taken.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Queue the acquisition of the name when the name is already taken.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v209"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para><function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> operates in a synchronous fashion: a message requesting the name
is sent to the bus broker, and the call waits until the broker responds.</para>
- <para><function>sd_bus_request_name_async()</function> is an asynchronous version of of
- <function>sd_bus_release_name()</function>. Instead of waiting for the request to complete, the request message is
+ <para><function>sd_bus_request_name_async()</function> is an asynchronous version of
+ <function>sd_bus_request_name()</function>. Instead of waiting for the request to complete, the request message is
enqueued. The specified <parameter>callback</parameter> will be called when the broker's response is received. If
the parameter is specified as <constant>NULL</constant> a default implementation is used instead which will
terminate the connection when the name cannot be acquired. The function returns a slot object in its
<para>On success, these calls return 0 or a positive integer. On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style
error code.</para>
- <para>If <varname>SD_BUS_NAME_QUEUE</varname> is specified, <function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> will return
+ <para>If <constant>SD_BUS_NAME_QUEUE</constant> is specified, <function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> will return
0 when the name is already taken by another peer and the client has been added to the queue for the name. In that
case, the caller can subscribe to <literal>NameOwnerChanged</literal> signals to be notified when the name is
successfully acquired. <function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> returns > 0 when the name has immediately
been acquired successfully.</para>
- </refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Errors</title>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Errors</title>
- <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
+ <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-EALREADY</constant></term>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EALREADY</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>The caller already is the owner of the specified name.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem><para>The caller already is the owner of the specified name.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-EEXIST</constant></term>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EEXIST</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>The name has already been acquired by a different peer, and SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING was
- not specified or the other peer did not specify SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT while acquiring the
- name.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem><para>The name has already been acquired by a different peer, and SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING was
+ not specified or the other peer did not specify SD_BUS_NAME_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT while acquiring the
+ name.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-ESRCH</constant></term>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-ESRCH</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>It was attempted to release a name that is currently not registered on the
- bus.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem><para>It was attempted to release a name that is currently not registered on the
+ bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-EADDRINUSE</constant></term>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EADDRINUSE</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>It was attempted to release a name that is owned by a different peer on the
- bus.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem><para>It was attempted to release a name that is owned by a different peer on the
+ bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>A specified parameter is invalid. This is also generated when the requested name is a special
- service name reserved by the D-Bus specification, or when the operation is requested on a connection that does
- not refer to a bus.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem><para>A specified parameter is invalid. This is also generated when the requested name is
+ a special service name reserved by the D-Bus specification, or when the operation is requested on a
+ connection that does not refer to a bus.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-ENOTCONN</constant></term>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-ENOTCONN</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>The bus connection has been disconnected.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem><para>The bus connection has been disconnected.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><constant>-ECHILD</constant></term>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><constant>-ECHILD</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>The bus connection has been created in a different process than the current
- one.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <listitem><para>The bus connection has been created in a different process than the current
+ one.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect2>
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <title>Notes</title>
+ <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
- <para>The <function>sd_bus_acquire_name()</function> and the other interfaces described here are available as a
- shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry
- project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> file.</para>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>History</title>
+ <para><function>sd_bus_request_name()</function> and
+ <function>sd_bus_release_name()</function> were added in version 209.</para>
+ <para><function>sd_bus_request_name_async()</function> and
+ <function>sd_bus_release_name_async()</function> were added in version 237.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_slot_unref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
+ <para><simplelist type="inline">
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_slot_unref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ </simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>