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sd-bus(3)

SD-BUS(3) sd-bus SD-BUS(3)


.SH "NAME" sd-bus - A lightweight D-Bus IPC client library


.SH "SYNOPSIS"

#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>


.HP 912u


pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd


.SH "DESCRIPTION"


.PP sd-bus.h is part of libsystemd(3) and provides an implementation of a D-Bus IPC client. See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information about D-Bus IPC.


.PP See

sd_bus_add_object_vtable(3),
sd_bus_add_fallback(3),
sd_bus_add_fallback_vtable(3),
sd_bus_add_filter(3),
sd_bus_call_async(3),
sd_bus_call_method_async(3),
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added(3),
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_added_strv(3),
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed(3),
sd_bus_emit_interfaces_removed_strv(3),
sd_bus_emit_object_added(3),
sd_bus_emit_object_removed(3),
sd_bus_emit_properties_changed(3),
sd_bus_emit_properties_changed_strv(3),
sd_bus_emit_signalv(3),
sd_bus_emit_signal_to(3),
sd_bus_emit_signal_tov(3),
sd_bus_get_address(3),
sd_bus_get_allow_interactive_authorization(3),
sd_bus_get_bus_id(3),
sd_bus_get_creds_mask(3),
sd_bus_get_current_message(3),
sd_bus_get_current_slot(3),
sd_bus_get_current_userdata(3),
sd_bus_get_exit_on_disconnect(3),
sd_bus_get_method_call_timeout(3),
sd_bus_get_owner_creds(3),
sd_bus_get_property(3),
sd_bus_get_property_string(3),
sd_bus_get_property_strv(3),
sd_bus_get_property_trivial(3),
sd_bus_get_scope(3),
sd_bus_get_tid(3),
sd_bus_get_unique_name(3),
sd_bus_is_bus_client(3),
sd_bus_is_monitor(3),
sd_bus_is_server(3),
sd_bus_message_close_container(3),
sd_bus_message_enter_container(3),
sd_bus_message_exit_container(3),
sd_bus_message_get_allow_interactive_authorization(3),
sd_bus_message_get_creds(3),
sd_bus_message_get_errno(3),
sd_bus_message_get_error(3),
sd_bus_message_get_sender(3),
sd_bus_message_new_signal_to(3),
sd_bus_message_peek_type(3),
sd_bus_message_send(3),
sd_bus_message_set_allow_interactive_authorization(3),
sd_bus_message_set_sender(3),
sd_bus_query_sender_privilege(3),
sd_bus_send_to(3),
sd_bus_set_allow_interactive_authorization(3),
sd_bus_set_bus_client(3),
sd_bus_set_monitor(3),
sd_bus_set_propertyv(3),
sd_bus_slot_get_current_handler(3),
sd_bus_slot_get_current_message(3),
sd_bus_slot_get_current_userdata(3),
for more information about the functions available.


.PP The busctl(1) tool makes the functionality implemented by sd-bus available from the command line.


.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 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 "SEE ALSO"


.PP systemd(1), sd-event(3), busctl(1), sd-varlink(3), dbus-daemon(1), dbus-send(1), pkg-config(1)

systemd 262.2

systemd 262.2-r1 · os · ingested 2026-11-06