man/sd_bus_process.xml

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  <refentryinfo>
    <title>sd_bus_process</title>
    <productname>systemd</productname>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>sd_bus_process</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>sd_bus_process</refname>

    <refpurpose>Drive the connection</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <funcsynopsis>
      <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

      <funcprototype>
        <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_process</function></funcdef>
        <paramdef>sd_bus *<parameter>bus</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>sd_bus_message **<parameter>ret</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>
    </funcsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para><function>sd_bus_process()</function> drives the connection between the client and the message bus. That is,
    it handles connecting, authentication, and message processing. When invoked pending I/O work is executed, and
    queued incoming messages are dispatched to registered callbacks. Each time it is invoked a single operation is
    executed. It returns zero when no operations were pending and positive if a message was processed. When zero is
    returned the caller should synchronously poll for I/O events before calling into
    <function>sd_bus_process()</function> again. For that either user the simple, synchronous
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_wait</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> call, or hook up
    the bus connection object to an external or manual event loop using
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_get_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
    </para>

    <para><function>sd_bus_process()</function> processes at most one incoming message per call.  If the parameter
    <parameter>ret</parameter> is not <constant>NULL</constant> and the call processed a message,
    <parameter>*ret</parameter> is set to this message.  The caller owns a reference to this message and should call
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_unref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> when the
    message is no longer needed. If <parameter>ret</parameter> is not NULL, progress was made, but no message was
    processed, <parameter>*ret</parameter> is set to <constant>NULL</constant>.</para>

    <para>If a the bus object is connected to an
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> event loop (with
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_attach_event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>), it is not
    necessary to call <function>sd_bus_process()</function> directly as it is invoked automatically when
    necessary.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Return Value</title>

    <para>If progress was made, a positive integer is returned. If no progress was made, 0 is returned. If an
    error occurs, a negative <varname>errno</varname>-style error code is returned.</para>

    <refsect2>
      <title>Errors</title>

      <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>

          <listitem><para>An invalid bus object was passed.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><constant>-ECHILD</constant></term>

          <listitem><para>The bus connection was allocated in a parent process and is being reused in a child
          process after <function>fork()</function>.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><constant>-ENOTCONN</constant></term>

          <listitem><para>The bus connection has been terminated already.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><constant>-ECONNRESET</constant></term>

          <listitem><para>The bus connection has been terminated just now.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><constant>-EBUSY</constant></term>

          <listitem><para>This function is already being called, i.e. <function>sd_bus_process()</function>
          has been called from a callback function that itself was called by
          <function>sd_bus_process()</function>.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>
  </refsect1>

  <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>

    <para>
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_wait</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_get_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_message_unref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_attach_event</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>