Provided by: libsystemd-dev_255.4-1ubuntu8.11_amd64 

NAME
sd_bus_emit_signal, sd_bus_emit_signalv, sd_bus_emit_signal_to, sd_bus_emit_signal_tov,
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added, sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added_strv, sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed,
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed_strv, sd_bus_emit_properties_changed, sd_bus_emit_properties_changed_strv,
sd_bus_emit_object_added, sd_bus_emit_object_removed - Convenience functions for emitting (standard)
D-Bus signals
SYNOPSIS
#include <systemd/sd-bus-vtable.h>
int sd_bus_emit_signal(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface, const char *member,
const char *types, ...);
int sd_bus_emit_signalv(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface, const char *member,
const char *types, va_list ap);
int sd_bus_emit_signal_to(sd_bus *bus, const char *destination, const char *path, const char *interface,
const char *member, const char *types, ...);
int sd_bus_emit_signal_tov(sd_bus *bus, const char *destination, const char *path, const char *interface,
const char *member, const char *types, va_list ap);
int sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface, ...);
int sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added_strv(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char **interfaces);
int sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface, ...);
int sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed_strv(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char **interfaces);
int sd_bus_emit_properties_changed(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface,
const char *name, ...);
int sd_bus_emit_properties_changed_strv(sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface,
const char **names);
int sd_bus_emit_object_added(sd_bus *bus, const char *path);
int sd_bus_emit_object_removed(sd_bus *bus, const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
sd_bus_emit_signal() is a convenience function for initializing a bus message object and emitting the
corresponding D-Bus signal. It combines the sd_bus_message_new_signal(3), sd_bus_message_append(3) and
sd_bus_send(3) functions into a single function call. sd_bus_emit_signalv() is equivalent to
sd_bus_message_append(), except that it is called with a "va_list" instead of a variable number of
arguments.
sd_bus_emit_signal_to() and sd_bus_emit_signal_tov() are identical to sd_bus_emit_signal() and
sd_bus_emit_signalv(), except that they can emit the signal to a single destination. Give destination as
NULL to broadcast the signal.
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added() and sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed() are used to implement the
InterfacesAdded and InterfacesRemoved signals of the org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface. They
take a path whose interfaces have been modified as an argument and a variable list of interfaces that
have been added or removed, respectively. The final argument passed to sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added() and
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed() must be NULL. This allows both functions to safely determine the number
of passed interface arguments. sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added_strv() and
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed_strv() are identical to their respective counterparts but both take the
list of interfaces as a single argument instead of a variable number of arguments.
sd_bus_emit_properties_changed() is used to implement the PropertiesChanged signal of the
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties interface. It takes an object path, interface and a variable list of
property names as its arguments. The final argument passed to sd_bus_emit_properties_changed() must be
NULL. This allows it to safely determine the number of passed property names.
sd_bus_emit_properties_changed_strv() is identical to sd_bus_emit_properties_changed() but takes the list
of property names as a single argument instead of a variable number of arguments.
sd_bus_emit_object_added() and sd_bus_emit_object_removed() are convenience functions for emitting the
InterfacesAdded or InterfacesRemoved signals for all interfaces registered on a specific object path,
respectively. This includes any parent fallback vtables if they are not overridden by a more applicable
child vtable. It also includes all the standard D-Bus interfaces implemented by sd-bus itself on any
registered object.
Note that sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added(), sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed(), sd_bus_emit_object_added()
and sd_bus_emit_object_removed() require an object manager to have been registered on the given object
path or one of its parent object paths using sd_bus_add_object_manager(3).
RETURN VALUE
On success, these functions return a non-negative integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style
error code.
Errors
Returned errors may indicate the following problems:
-EINVAL
One of the required parameters is NULL or invalid. A reserved D-Bus interface was passed as the
interface parameter.
Added in version 246.
-ENOPKG
The bus cannot be resolved.
Added in version 246.
-ECHILD
The bus was created in a different process, library or module instance.
Added in version 246.
-ENOMEM
Memory allocation failed.
Added in version 246.
-ESRCH
One of sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added(), sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed(), sd_bus_emit_object_added()
or sd_bus_emit_object_removed() was called on an object without an object manager registered on its
own object path or one of its parent object paths.
Added in version 246.
See the man pages of sd_bus_message_new_signal(3), sd_bus_message_append(3) and sd_bus_send(3) for more
possible errors.
NOTES
Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to
with the libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.
The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that
the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is
recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have
been started.
HISTORY
sd_bus_emit_signal(), sd_bus_emit_signalv(), sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added(),
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added_strv(), sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed(),
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed_strv(), sd_bus_emit_properties_changed(),
sd_bus_emit_properties_changed_strv(), sd_bus_emit_object_added(), and sd_bus_emit_object_removed() were
added in version 246.
sd_bus_emit_signal_to() and sd_bus_emit_signal_tov() were added in version 253.
SEE ALSO
sd-bus(3), busctl(1), sd_bus_message_new_signal(3), sd_bus_message_append(3), sd_bus_send(3),
sd_bus_call_method(3)
systemd 255 SD_BUS_EMIT_SIGNAL(3)