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6a70f3aa 6<refentry id="sd_watchdog_enabled"
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7 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
8
9 <refentryinfo>
10 <title>sd_watchdog_enabled</title>
11 <productname>systemd</productname>
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12 </refentryinfo>
13
14 <refmeta>
15 <refentrytitle>sd_watchdog_enabled</refentrytitle>
16 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
17 </refmeta>
18
19 <refnamediv>
20 <refname>sd_watchdog_enabled</refname>
21 <refpurpose>Check whether the service manager expects watchdog keep-alive notifications from a service</refpurpose>
22 </refnamediv>
23
24 <refsynopsisdiv>
25 <funcsynopsis>
26 <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-daemon.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
27
28 <funcprototype>
29 <funcdef>int <function>sd_watchdog_enabled</function></funcdef>
30 <paramdef>int <parameter>unset_environment</parameter></paramdef>
31 <paramdef>uint64_t *<parameter>usec</parameter></paramdef>
32 </funcprototype>
33 </funcsynopsis>
34 </refsynopsisdiv>
35
36 <refsect1>
37 <title>Description</title>
38 <para><function>sd_watchdog_enabled()</function> may be called by
39 a service to detect whether the service manager expects regular
40 keep-alive watchdog notification events from it, and the timeout
41 after which the manager will act on the service if it did not get
42 such a notification.</para>
43
44 <para>If the <varname>$WATCHDOG_USEC</varname> environment
45 variable is set, and the <varname>$WATCHDOG_PID</varname> variable
46 is unset or set to the PID of the current process, the service
47 manager expects notifications from this process. The manager will
48 usually terminate a service when it does not get a notification
49 message within the specified time after startup and after each
50 previous message. It is recommended that a daemon sends a
51 keep-alive notification message to the service manager every half
52 of the time returned here. Notification messages may be sent with
53 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
54 with a message string of <literal>WATCHDOG=1</literal>.</para>
55
56 <para>If the <parameter>unset_environment</parameter> parameter is
57 non-zero, <function>sd_watchdog_enabled()</function> will unset
58 the <varname>$WATCHDOG_USEC</varname> and
59 <varname>$WATCHDOG_PID</varname> environment variables before
60 returning (regardless of whether the function call itself
61 succeeded or not). Those variables are no longer inherited by
62 child processes. Further calls to
63 <function>sd_watchdog_enabled()</function> will also return with
64 zero.</para>
65
66 <para>If the <parameter>usec</parameter> parameter is non-NULL,
67 <function>sd_watchdog_enabled()</function> will write the timeout
68 in µs for the watchdog logic to it.</para>
69
70 <para>To enable service supervision with the watchdog logic, use
71 <varname>WatchdogSec=</varname> in service files. See
72 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
73 for details.</para>
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75 <para>Use
76 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_set_watchdog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
77 to enable automatic watchdog support in
78 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>-based event loops.</para>
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79 </refsect1>
80
81 <refsect1>
82 <title>Return Value</title>
83
84 <para>On failure, this call returns a negative errno-style error
85 code. If the service manager expects watchdog keep-alive
86 notification messages to be sent, &gt; 0 is returned, otherwise 0
87 is returned. Only if the return value is &gt; 0, the
88 <parameter>usec</parameter> parameter is valid after the
89 call.</para>
90 </refsect1>
91
92 <refsect1>
93 <title>Notes</title>
94
95 <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
96
fa000db3 97 <para>Internally, this function parses the
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98 <varname>$WATCHDOG_PID</varname> and
99 <varname>$WATCHDOG_USEC</varname> environment variable. The call
100 will ignore these variables if <varname>$WATCHDOG_PID</varname>
101 does not contain the PID of the current process, under the
102 assumption that in that case, the variables were set for a
103 different process further up the process tree.</para>
104 </refsect1>
105
106 <refsect1>
107 <title>Environment</title>
108
109 <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
110 <varlistentry>
111 <term><varname>$WATCHDOG_PID</varname></term>
112
113 <listitem><para>Set by the system manager for supervised
114 process for which watchdog support is enabled, and contains
115 the PID of that process. See above for
116 details.</para></listitem>
117 </varlistentry>
118
119 <varlistentry>
120 <term><varname>$WATCHDOG_USEC</varname></term>
121
122 <listitem><para>Set by the system manager for supervised
123 process for which watchdog support is enabled, and contains
fa000db3 124 the watchdog timeout in µs. See above for
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125 details.</para></listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127 </variablelist>
128 </refsect1>
129
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130 <refsect1>
131 <title>See Also</title>
132 <para>
133 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
134 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
135 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
136 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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137 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
138 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_event_set_watchdog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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139 </para>
140 </refsect1>
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142</refentry>