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6<refentry id="sd_bus_track_new" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
7
8  <refentryinfo>
9    <title>sd_bus_track_new</title>
10    <productname>systemd</productname>
11  </refentryinfo>
12
13  <refmeta>
14    <refentrytitle>sd_bus_track_new</refentrytitle>
15    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
16  </refmeta>
17
18  <refnamediv>
19    <refname>sd_bus_track_new</refname>
20    <refname>sd_bus_track_ref</refname>
21    <refname>sd_bus_track_unref</refname>
22    <refname>sd_bus_track_unrefp</refname>
23    <refname>sd_bus_track_set_recursive</refname>
24    <refname>sd_bus_track_get_recursive</refname>
25    <refname>sd_bus_track_get_bus</refname>
26    <refname>sd_bus_track_get_userdata</refname>
27    <refname>sd_bus_track_set_userdata</refname>
28
29    <refpurpose>Track bus peers</refpurpose>
30  </refnamediv>
31
32  <refsynopsisdiv>
33    <funcsynopsis>
34      <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
35
36      <funcprototype>
37        <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_track_new</function></funcdef>
38        <paramdef>sd_bus* <parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
39        <paramdef>sd_bus_track** <parameter>ret</parameter></paramdef>
40        <paramdef>sd_bus_track_handler_t <parameter>handler</parameter></paramdef>
41        <paramdef>void* <parameter>userdata</parameter></paramdef>
42      </funcprototype>
43
44      <funcprototype>
45        <funcdef>sd_bus_track *<function>sd_bus_track_ref</function></funcdef>
46        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
47      </funcprototype>
48
49      <funcprototype>
50        <funcdef>sd_bus_track *<function>sd_bus_track_unref</function></funcdef>
51        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
52      </funcprototype>
53
54      <funcprototype>
55        <funcdef>void <function>sd_bus_track_unrefp</function></funcdef>
56        <paramdef>sd_bus_track **<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
57      </funcprototype>
58
59      <funcprototype>
60        <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_track_get_recursive</function></funcdef>
61        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
62      </funcprototype>
63
64      <funcprototype>
65        <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_track_set_recursive</function></funcdef>
66        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
67        <paramdef>int <parameter>b</parameter></paramdef>
68      </funcprototype>
69
70      <funcprototype>
71        <funcdef>sd_bus* <function>sd_bus_track_get_bus</function></funcdef>
72        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
73      </funcprototype>
74
75      <funcprototype>
76        <funcdef>void* <function>sd_bus_track_get_userdata</function></funcdef>
77        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
78      </funcprototype>
79
80      <funcprototype>
81        <funcdef>void* <function>sd_bus_track_set_userdata</function></funcdef>
82        <paramdef>sd_bus_track *<parameter>t</parameter></paramdef>
83        <paramdef>void *userdata</paramdef>
84      </funcprototype>
85
86    </funcsynopsis>
87  </refsynopsisdiv>
88
89  <refsect1>
90    <title>Description</title>
91
92    <para><function>sd_bus_track_new()</function> creates a new bus peer tracking object. The object is allocated for
93    the specified bus, and returned in the <parameter>*ret</parameter> parameter. After use, the object should be freed
94    again by dropping the acquired reference with <function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> (see below). A bus peer
95    tracking object may be used to keep track of peers on a specific IPC bus, for cases where peers are making use of
96    one or more local objects, in order to control the lifecycle of the local objects and ensure they stay around as
97    long as the peers needing them are around, and unreferenced (and possibly destroyed) as soon as all relevant peers
98    have vanished. Each bus peer tracking object may be used to track zero, one or more peers add a time. References to
99    specific bus peers are added via
100    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_track_add_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> or
101    <function>sd_bus_track_add_sender()</function>. They may be dropped again via
102    <function>sd_bus_track_remove_name()</function> and
103    <function>sd_bus_track_remove_sender()</function>. Alternatively, references on peers are removed automatically
104    when they disconnect from the bus.  If non-<constant>NULL</constant> the <parameter>handler</parameter> may specify
105    a function that is invoked whenever the last reference is dropped, regardless whether the reference is dropped
106    explicitly via <function>sd_bus_track_remove_name()</function> or implicitly because the peer disconnected from the
107    bus. The final argument <parameter>userdata</parameter> may be used to attach a generic user data pointer to the
108    object. This pointer is passed to the handler callback when it is invoked.</para>
109
110    <para><function>sd_bus_track_ref()</function> creates a new reference to a bus peer tracking object. This object
111    will not be destroyed until <function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> has been called as many times plus once
112    more. Once the reference count has dropped to zero, the specified object cannot be used anymore, further calls to
113    <function>sd_bus_track_ref()</function> or <function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> on the same object are
114    illegal.</para>
115
116    <para><function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> destroys a reference to a bus peer tracking object.</para>
117
118    <para><function>sd_bus_track_unrefp()</function> is similar to <function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> but takes
119    a pointer to a pointer to an <type>sd_bus_track</type> object. This call is useful in conjunction with GCC's and
120    LLVM's <ulink url="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html">Clean-up Variable
121    Attribute</ulink>. Note that this function is defined as inline function.</para>
122
123    <para><function>sd_bus_track_ref()</function>, <function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> and
124    <function>sd_bus_track_unrefp()</function> execute no operation if the passed in bus peer tracking object is
125    <constant>NULL</constant>.</para>
126
127    <para>Bus peer tracking objects may exist in two modes: by default they operate in non-recursive mode, but may
128    optionally be switched into recursive mode. If operating in the default non-recursive mode a peer is either tracked
129    or not tracked. In this mode invoking <function>sd_bus_track_add_name()</function> multiple times in a row for the
130    same peer is fully equivalent to calling it just once, as the call adds the peer to the set of tracked peers if
131    necessary, and executes no operation if the peer is already being tracked. A single invocation of
132    <function>sd_bus_track_remove_name()</function> removes the reference on the peer again, regardless how many times
133    <function>sd_bus_track_add_name()</function> was called before. If operating in recursive mode, the number of times
134    <function>sd_bus_track_add_name()</function> is invoked for the same peer name is counted and
135    <function>sd_bus_track_remove_name()</function> must be called the same number of times before the peer is not
136    tracked anymore, with the exception when the tracked peer vanishes from the bus, in which case the count is
137    irrelevant and the tracking of the specific peer is immediately
138    removed. <function>sd_bus_track_get_recursive()</function> may be used to determine whether the bus peer tracking
139    object is operating in recursive mode. <function>sd_bus_track_set_recursive()</function> may be used to enable or
140    disable recursive mode. By default a bus peer tracking object operates in non-recursive mode, and
141    <function>sd_bus_track_get_recursive()</function> for a newly allocated object hence returns a value equal to
142    zero. Use <function>sd_bus_track_set_recursive()</function> to enable recursive mode, right after allocation. It
143    takes a boolean argument to enable or disable recursive mode. Note that tracking objects for which
144    <function>sd_bus_track_add_name()</function> was already invoked at least once (and which hence track already one
145    or more peers) may not be switched from recursive to non-recursive mode anymore.</para>
146
147    <para><function>sd_bus_track_get_bus()</function> returns the bus object the bus peer tracking object belongs
148    to. It returns the bus object initially passed to <function>sd_bus_track_new()</function> when the object was
149    allocated.</para>
150
151    <para><function>sd_bus_track_get_userdata()</function> returns the generic user data pointer set on the bus peer
152    tracking object at the time of creation using <function>sd_bus_track_new()</function> or at a later time, using
153    <function>sd_bus_track_set_userdata()</function>.</para>
154  </refsect1>
155
156  <refsect1>
157    <title>Return Value</title>
158
159    <para>On success, <function>sd_bus_track_new()</function> and <function>sd_bus_track_set_recursive()</function>
160    return 0 or a positive integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.</para>
161
162    <para><function>sd_bus_track_ref()</function> always returns the argument.</para>
163
164    <para><function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function> always returns <constant>NULL</constant>.</para>
165
166    <para><function>sd_bus_track_get_recursive()</function> returns 0 if non-recursive mode is selected (default), and
167    greater than 0 if recursive mode is selected. On failure a negative errno-style error code is returned.</para>
168
169    <para><function>sd_bus_track_get_bus()</function> returns the bus object associated to the bus peer tracking
170    object.</para>
171
172    <para><function>sd_bus_track_get_userdata()</function> returns the generic user data pointer associated with the
173    bus peer tracking object. <function>sd_bus_track_set_userdata()</function> returns the previous user data pointer
174    set.</para>
175
176  </refsect1>
177
178  <refsect1>
179    <title>Reference ownership</title>
180
181    <para>The <function>sd_bus_track_new()</function> function creates a new object and the caller owns the sole
182    reference. When not needed anymore, this reference should be destroyed with
183    <function>sd_bus_track_unref()</function>.
184    </para>
185
186    <refsect2>
187      <title>Errors</title>
188
189      <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
190
191      <variablelist>
192
193        <varlistentry>
194          <term><constant>-EBUSY</constant></term>
195
196          <listitem><para>Bus peers have already been added to the bus peer tracking object and
197          <function>sd_bus_track_set_recursive()</function> was called to change tracking mode.
198          </para></listitem>
199        </varlistentry>
200
201        <varlistentry>
202          <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
203
204          <listitem><para>Specified parameter is invalid
205          (<constant>NULL</constant> in case of output
206          parameters).</para></listitem>
207        </varlistentry>
208
209        <varlistentry>
210          <term><constant>-ENOMEM</constant></term>
211
212          <listitem><para>Memory allocation failed.</para></listitem>
213        </varlistentry>
214
215      </variablelist>
216    </refsect2>
217  </refsect1>
218
219  <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
220
221  <refsect1>
222    <title>See Also</title>
223
224    <para>
225      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
226      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
227      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_track_add_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
228    </para>
229  </refsect1>
230
231</refentry>
232