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SDBUSATTACHEVENT(3) sd_bus_attach_event SDBUSATTACHEVENT(3)

NAME top

   sd_bus_attach_event, sd_bus_detach_event, sd_bus_get_event -
   Attach a bus connection object to an event loop

SYNOPSIS top

   **#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>**

   **int sd_bus_attach_event(sd_bus ***_bus_**, sd_event ***_e_**, int** _priority_**);**

   **int sd_bus_detach_event(sd_bus ***_bus_**);**

   **sd_event *sd_bus_get_event(sd_bus ***_bus_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   **sd_bus_attach_event()** attaches the specified bus connection object
   to an [sd-event(3)](../man3/sd-event.3.html) event loop object at the specified priority (see
   [sd_event_source_set_priority(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fpriority.3.html) for details on event loop
   priorities). When a bus connection object is attached to an event
   loop incoming messages will be automatically read and processed,
   and outgoing messages written, whenever the event loop is run.
   When the event loop is about to terminate, the bus connection is
   automatically flushed and closed (see [sd_bus_set_close_on_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fset%5Fclose%5Fon%5Fexit.3.html)
   for details on this). By default, bus connection objects are not
   attached to any event loop. When a bus connection object is
   attached to one it is not necessary to invoke [sd_bus_wait(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fwait.3.html) or
   [sd_bus_process(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fprocess.3.html) as this functionality is handled automatically
   by the event loop.

   **sd_bus_detach_event()** detaches a bus object from its event loop.

   The **sd_bus_get_event()** returns the event loop object the specified
   bus object is currently attached to, or **NULL** if it is currently
   not attached to any.

   Note that **sd_bus_attach_event()** is only one of three supported
   ways to implement I/O event handling for bus connections.
   Alternatively use [sd_bus_get_fd(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fget%5Ffd.3.html) for hooking up a bus connection
   object with external or manual event loops. Or use [sd_bus_wait(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fwait.3.html)
   as a simple synchronous, blocking I/O waiting call.

RETURN VALUE top

   On success, **sd_bus_attach_event()** and **sd_bus_detach_event()** return
   0 or a positive integer. On failure, they return a negative
   errno-style error code.

   **sd_bus_get_event()** returns an event loop object or **NULL**.

Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

   **-ECHILD**
       The bus connection has been created in a different process,
       library or module instance.

NOTES top

   Functions described here are available as a shared library, which
   can be compiled against and linked to with the
   **libsystemd pkg-config**(1) file.

   The code described here uses [getenv(3)](../man3/getenv.3.html), which is declared to be
   not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the
   functions described here must not call [setenv(3)](../man3/setenv.3.html) 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.

HISTORY top

   **sd_bus_attach_event()**, **sd_bus_detach_event()**, and
   **sd_bus_get_event()** were added in version 221.

SEE ALSO top

   [systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html), [sd-bus(3)](../man3/sd-bus.3.html), [sd-event(3)](../man3/sd-event.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_priority(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fpriority.3.html), [sd_bus_set_close_on_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fset%5Fclose%5Fon%5Fexit.3.html),
   [sd_bus_wait(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fwait.3.html), [sd_bus_get_fd(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fget%5Ffd.3.html)

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