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<refentry id="sd_bus_request_name"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<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>
<varlistentry>
<term><constant>SD_BUS_NAME_REPLACE_EXISTING</constant></term>
- <listitem><para>Take over the name if it is 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>
+ <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>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
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>
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