| SD_SEAT_GET_ACTIVE(3) | sd_seat_get_active | SD_SEAT_GET_ACTIVE(3) |
.SH "NAME" sd_seat_get_active, sd_seat_get_sessions,
sd_seat_can_tty, sd_seat_can_graphical - Determine state of a specific
seat
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
#include <systemd/sd-login.h>
.HP 552u int
sd_seat_get_active(const char *seat,
char **session,
uid_t *uid);
.HP 600u int
sd_seat_get_sessions(const char *seat,
char ***ret_sessions,
uid_t **ret_uids,
unsigned int *ret_n_uids);
.HP 480u int
sd_seat_can_tty(const char *seat);
.HP 624u int
sd_seat_can_graphical(const char *seat);
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP sd_seat_get_active() may be used to determine which session is
currently active on a seat, if there is any. Returns the session identifier
and the user identifier of the Unix user the session is belonging to. Either
the session or the user identifier parameter can be passed NULL, in
case only one of the parameters shall be queried. The returned string needs
to be freed with the libc free(3) call after use.
.PP sd_seat_get_sessions() may be used to determine all sessions on
the specified seat. Returns two arrays, one (NULL terminated) with
the session identifiers of the sessions and one with the user identifiers of
the Unix users the sessions belong to. An additional parameter may be used
to return the number of entries in the latter array. This value is the same
as the return value if the return value is nonnegative. The output
parameters may be passed as NULL in case these output values are not
needed. The arrays and the strings referenced by them need to be freed with
the libc free(3) call after use. Note that instead of an empty array
NULL may be returned and should be considered equivalent to an empty
array.
.PP sd_seat_can_tty() may be used to determine whether a specific seat
provides TTY functionality, i.e. is useful as a text console.
.PP sd_seat_can_graphical() may be used to determine whether a
specific seat provides graphics functionality, i.e. is useful as a graphics
display.
.PP If the seat parameter of any of these functions is passed as
NULL, the operation is executed for the seat of the session of the
calling process, if there is any.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.PP On success, sd_seat_get_active() returns 0 or a positive integer.
On success, sd_seat_get_sessions() returns the number of entries in
the session identifier array. If the test succeeds, sd_seat_can_tty()
and sd_seat_can_graphical() return a positive integer, if it fails 0.
On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style error code.
.SS "Errors"
.PP Returned errors may indicate the following problems:
.PP -ENODATA
The given field is not specified for the described seat.
.RE
.PP -ENXIO
The specified seat is unknown.
.RE
.PP -EINVAL
An input parameter was invalid (out of range, or NULL, where that is
not accepted).
.RE
.PP -ENOMEM
Memory allocation failed.
.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 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_seat_can_tty() and sd_seat_can_graphical() were added in
version 186.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP systemd(1), sd-login(3), sd_session_get_seat(3)
| systemd 262.2 |