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NAME top

   sd_event_exit, sd_event_get_exit_code - Ask the event loop to exit

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **int sd_event_exit(sd_event ***_event_**, int** _code_**);**

   **int sd_event_get_exit_code(sd_event ***_event_**, int ***_ret_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   **sd_event_exit()** requests the event loop specified in the _event_
   event loop object to exit. The _code_ parameter may be any integer
   value and is returned as-is by [sd_event_loop(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Floop.3.html) after the last
   event loop iteration. It may also be queried using
   **sd_event_get_exit_code()**, see below.

   When exiting is requested the event loop will stop listening for
   and dispatching regular event sources. Instead it will proceed
   with executing only event sources registered with
   [sd_event_add_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fexit.3.html) in the order defined by their priority. After
   all exit event sources have been dispatched the event loop is
   terminated.

   If **sd_event_exit()** is invoked a second time while the event loop
   is still processing exit event sources, the exit code stored in
   the event loop object is updated, but otherwise no further
   operation is executed.

   **sd_event_get_exit_code()** may be used to query the exit code passed
   to an earlier call of **sd_event_exit()**. The return parameter _ret_
   may be set to **NULL**, in order to simply check if **sd_event_exit()**
   has been called before (as **sd_event_get_exit_code()** fails with
   **-ENODATA** if that's not the case, see below).

   While the full positive and negative integer ranges may be used
   for the exit code, care should be taken not pick exit codes that
   conflict with regular exit codes returned by **sd_event_loop()**, if
   these exit codes shall be distinguishable.

   Note that for most event source types passing the callback pointer
   as **NULL** in the respective constructor call (i.e. in
   [sd_event_add_time(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Ftime.3.html), [sd_event_add_signal(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fsignal.3.html), ...) has the effect
   of **sd_event_exit()** being invoked once the event source triggers,
   with the specified userdata pointer cast to an integer as the exit
   code parameter. This is useful to automatically terminate an event
   loop after some condition, such as a timeout or reception of
   **SIGTERM** or similar. See the documentation for the respective
   constructor call for details.

RETURN VALUE top

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

Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

   **-EINVAL**
       The event loop object or error code pointer are invalid.

   **-ECHILD**
       The event loop was created in a different process, library or
       module instance.

   **-ESTALE**
       The event loop has exited already and all exit handlers are
       already processed.

   **-ENODATA**
       Returned by **sd_event_get_exit_code()** in case the event loop
       has not been requested to exit yet.

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_event_exit()** and **sd_event_get_exit_code()** were added in version
   229.

SEE ALSO top

   [systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html), [sd-event(3)](../man3/sd-event.3.html), [sd_event_new(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fnew.3.html), [sd_event_add_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fexit.3.html),
   [sd_event_add_time(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Ftime.3.html), [sd_event_add_signal(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fsignal.3.html), [sd_event_add_io(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fio.3.html),
   [sd_event_add_defer(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fdefer.3.html), [sd_event_add_inotify(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Finotify.3.html)

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