| SD_BUS_WAIT(3) | sd_bus_wait | SD_BUS_WAIT(3) |
.SH "NAME" sd_bus_wait - Wait for I/O on a bus connection
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>
.HP 384u int sd_bus_wait(sd_bus *bus,
uint64_t timeout_usec);
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP sd_bus_wait() synchronously waits for I/O on the specified bus
connection object. This function is supposed to be called whenever
sd_bus_process(3) returns zero, indicating that no work is pending on
the connection. Internally, this call invokes ppoll(2), to wait for
I/O on the bus connection. If the timeout_usec parameter is
specified, the call will block at most for the specified amount of time in
μs. Pass UINT64_MAX to permit it to sleep indefinitely.
.PP After each invocation of sd_bus_wait() the sd_bus_process()
call should be invoked in order to process any now pending I/O work.
.PP Note that sd_bus_wait() is suitable only for simple programs as it
does not permit waiting for other I/O events. For more complex programs
either connect the bus connection object to an external event loop using
sd_bus_get_fd(3) or to an sd-event(3) event loop using
sd_bus_attach_event(3).
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.PP If any I/O was seen, a positive value is returned, zero otherwise. If an
error occurs, a negative errno-style error code is returned.
.SS "Errors"
.PP Returned errors may indicate the following problems:
.PP -EINVAL
An invalid bus object was passed.
.RE
.PP -ECHILD
The bus connection was allocated in a parent process and is being reused in a
child process after fork().
.RE
.PP -ENOTCONN
The bus connection has been terminated already.
.RE
.SH "NOTES"
.PP Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be
compiled against and linked to with the
libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.
.PP All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread
may operate on a given object at any given time. Different threads may
access the same object at different times. Multiple independent objects may
be used from different threads in parallel.
.PP 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.
.SH "HISTORY"
.PP sd_bus_wait() was added in version 240.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP systemd(1), sd-bus(3), sd_bus_process(3),
sd_bus_get_fd(3), sd-event(3),
sd_bus_attach_event(3)
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