NAME

       sd_bus_message_seal - Prepare a D-Bus message for transmission

SYNOPSIS

       #include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

       int sd_bus_message_seal(sd_bus_message *m, uint64_t cookie, uint64_t timeout_usec);

DESCRIPTION

       sd_bus_message_seal() finishes the message m and prepares it for transmission using
       sd_bus_send(3).  cookie specifies the identifier used to match the message reply to its
       corresponding request.  timeout_usec specifies the maximum time in microseconds to wait
       for a reply to arrive.

       Note that in most scenarios, it's not necessary to call this function directly.
       sd_bus_call(3), sd_bus_call_async(3) and sd_bus_send(3) will seal any given messages if
       they have not been sealed yet.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, this function returns a non-negative integer. On failure, it returns a
       negative errno-style error code.

   Errors
       Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

       -EINVAL
           The m parameter is NULL.

           Added in version 246.

       -EBADMSG
           The D-Bus message m has open containers.

           Added in version 246.

       -ENOMSG
           The D-Bus message m is a reply but its type signature does not match the return type
           signature of its corresponding member in the object vtable.

           Added in version 246.

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_message_seal() was added in version 246.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), sd-bus(3), sd_bus_call(3), sd_bus_call_async(3), sd_bus_send(3)