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SDBUSM...ETCOOKIE(3) sd_bus_message_get_cookie SDBUSM...ETCOOKIE(3)

NAME top

   sd_bus_message_get_cookie, sd_bus_message_get_reply_cookie -
   Returns the transaction cookie of a message

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **int sd_bus_message_get_cookie(sd_bus_message ***_message_**,**
                                 **uint64_t ***_cookie_**);**

   **int sd_bus_message_get_reply_cookie(sd_bus_message ***_message_**,**
                                       **uint64_t ***_cookie_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   **sd_bus_message_get_cookie()** returns the transaction cookie of a
   message. The cookie uniquely identifies a message within each bus
   peer, but is not globally unique. It is assigned when a message is
   sent.

   **sd_bus_message_get_reply_cookie()** returns the transaction cookie
   of the message the specified message is a response to. When a
   reply message is generated for a method call message, its cookie
   is copied over into this field. Note that while every message that
   is transferred is identified by a cookie, only response messages
   carry a reply cookie field.

   Both functions take a message object as first parameter and a
   place to store the 64-bit cookie in.

RETURN VALUE top

   On success, these calls return 0 or a positive integer. On
   failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.

   On success, the cookie/reply cookie is returned in the specified
   64-bit unsigned integer variable.

Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

   **-EINVAL**
       A specified parameter is invalid.

   **-ENODATA**
       No cookie has been assigned to this message. This either
       indicates that the message has not been sent yet and hence has
       no cookie assigned, or that the message is not a method
       response message and hence carries a reply cookie field.

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_message_get_cookie()** and **sd_bus_message_get_reply_cookie()**
   were added in version 209.

SEE ALSO top

   [systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html), [sd-bus(3)](../man3/sd-bus.3.html), [sd_bus_new(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbus%5Fnew.3.html)

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