eudev/man/sd_pid_get_session.xml
Lennart Poettering 5430f7f2bc relicense to LGPLv2.1 (with exceptions)
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.

Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.

The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.

The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
2012-04-12 00:24:39 +02:00

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<refentry id="sd_pid_get_session">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_pid_get_session</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sd_pid_get_session</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>sd_pid_get_session</refname>
<refname>sd_pid_get_unit</refname>
<refname>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</refname>
<refpurpose>Determine session, service or owner of a session of a specific PID</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-login.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_session</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>char** <parameter>session</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_unit</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>char** <parameter>unit</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>uid_t* <parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> may be
used to determine the login session identifier of a
process identified by the specified process
identifier. The session identifier is a short string,
suitable for usage in file system paths. Note that not
all processes are part of a login session (e.g. system
service processes, user processes that are shared
between multiple sessions of the same user, or kernel
threads). For processes not being part of a login
session this function will fail. The returned string
needs to be freed with the libc
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
call after use.</para>
<para><function>sd_pid_get_unit()</function> may be
used to determine the systemd unit (i.e. system
service) identifier of a process identified by the
specified process identifier. The unit name is a short
string, suitable for usage in file system paths. Note
that not all processes are part of a unit/service
(e.g. user processes, or kernel threads). For
processes not being part of a systemd unit/system
service this function will fail. The returned string
needs to be freed with the libc
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
call after use.</para>
<para><function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function> may
be used to determine the Unix user identifier of the
owner of the session of a process identified the
specified PID. Note that this function will succeed
for user processes which are shared between multiple
login sessions of the same user, where
<function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> will
fail. For processes not being part of a login session
and not being a shared process of a user this function
will fail.</para>
<para>If the <literal>pid</literal> paramater of any
of these functions is passed as 0 the operation is
executed for the calling process.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para>On success these calls return 0 or a positive
integer. On failure, these calls return a negative
errno-style error code.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
<para>The <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>,
<function>sd_pid_get_pid()</function>, and
<function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function> interfaces
are available as shared library, which can be compiled
and linked to with the
<literal>libsystemd-login</literal>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
<para>Note that the login session identifier as
returned by <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>
is completely unrelated to the process session
identifier as returned by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_session_is_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>