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SDEVENTADDCHILD(3) sd_event_add_child SDEVENTADDCHILD(3)

NAME top

   sd_event_add_child, sd_event_add_child_pidfd,
   sd_event_source_get_child_pid, sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd,
   sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd_own,
   sd_event_source_set_child_pidfd_own,
   sd_event_source_get_child_process_own,
   sd_event_source_set_child_process_own,
   sd_event_source_send_child_signal, sd_event_child_handler_t - Add
   a child process state change event source to an event loop

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **typedef struct sd_event_source sd_event_source;**

   **typedef int (*sd_event_child_handler_t)(sd_event_source ***_s_**,**
                                           **const siginfo_t ***_si_**,**
                                           **void ***_userdata_**);**

   **int sd_event_add_child(sd_event ***_event_**, sd_event_source** _source_**,**
                          **pid_t** _pid_**, int** _options_**,**
                          **sd_event_child_handler_t** _handler_**,**
                          **void ***_userdata_**);**

   **int sd_event_add_child_pidfd(sd_event ***_event_**,**
                                **sd_event_source** _source_**, int** _pidfd_**,**
                                **int** _options_**,**
                                **sd_event_child_handler_t** _handler_**,**
                                **void ***_userdata_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_get_child_pid(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                     **pid_t ***_ret_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd(sd_event_source ***_source_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd_own(sd_event_source ***_source_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_set_child_pidfd_own(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                           **int** _own_**);**

   **int**
                                             **sd_event_source_get_child_process_own(sd_event_source ***_source_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_set_child_process_own(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                             **int** _own_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_send_child_signal(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                         **int** _sig_**,**
                                         **const siginfo_t ***_info_**,**
                                         **unsigned** _flags_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   **sd_event_add_child()** adds a new child process state change event
   source to an event loop. The event loop object is specified in the
   _event_ parameter, the event source object is returned in the _source_
   parameter. The _pid_ parameter specifies the PID of the process to
   watch, which must be a direct child process of the invoking
   process. The _options_ parameter determines which state changes will
   be watched for. It must contain an OR-ed mask of **WEXITED** (watch
   for the child process terminating), **WSTOPPED** (watch for the child
   process being stopped by a signal), and **WCONTINUED** (watch for the
   child process being resumed by a signal). See [waitid(2)](../man2/waitid.2.html) for
   further information.

   The _handler_ must be a function to call when the process changes
   state or **NULL**. The handler function will be passed the _userdata_
   pointer, which may be chosen freely by the caller. The handler
   also receives a pointer to a siginfo_t structure containing
   information about the child process event. The handler may return
   negative to signal an error (see below), other return values are
   ignored. If _handler_ is **NULL**, a default handler that calls
   [sd_event_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fexit.3.html) will be used.

   Only a single handler may be installed for a specific child
   process. The handler is enabled for a single event
   (**SD_EVENT_ONESHOT**), but this may be changed with
   [sd_event_source_set_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fenabled.3.html). If the handler function returns a
   negative error code, it will either be disabled after the
   invocation, even if the **SD_EVENT_ON** mode was requested before, or
   it will cause the loop to terminate, see
   [sd_event_source_set_exit_on_failure(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fexit%5Fon%5Ffailure.3.html).

   To destroy an event source object use [sd_event_source_unref(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Funref.3.html),
   but note that the event source is only removed from the event loop
   when all references to the event source are dropped. To make sure
   an event source does not fire anymore, even when there's still a
   reference to it kept, consider setting the event source to
   **SD_EVENT_OFF** with [sd_event_source_set_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fenabled.3.html).

   The **SIGCHLD** signal must be blocked in all threads before this
   function is called (using [sigprocmask(2)](../man2/sigprocmask.2.html) or [pthread_sigmask(3)](../man3/pthread%5Fsigmask.3.html)).

   If the second parameter of **sd_event_add_child()** is passed as **NULL**
   no reference to the event source object is returned. In this case,
   the event source is considered "floating", and will be destroyed
   implicitly when the event loop itself is destroyed.

   Note that the _handler_ function is invoked at a time where the
   child process is not reaped yet (and thus still is exposed as a
   zombie process by the kernel). However, the child will be reaped
   automatically after the function returns. Child processes for
   which no child process state change event sources are installed
   will not be reaped by the event loop implementation.

   If the _handler_ parameter to **sd_event_add_child()** is **NULL**, and the
   event source fires, this will be considered a request to exit the
   event loop. In this case, the _userdata_ parameter, cast to an
   integer, is passed as the exit code parameter to [sd_event_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fexit.3.html).

   If both a child process state change event source and a **SIGCHLD**
   signal event source is installed in the same event loop, the
   configured event source priorities decide which event source is
   dispatched first. If the signal handler is processed first, it
   should leave the child processes for which child process state
   change event sources are installed unreaped.

   **sd_event_add_child_pidfd()** is similar to **sd_event_add_child()** but
   takes a file descriptor referencing the process ("pidfd") instead
   of the numeric PID. A suitable file descriptor may be acquired via
   [pidfd_open(2)](../man2/pidfd%5Fopen.2.html) and related calls. The passed file descriptor is not
   closed when the event source is freed again, unless
   **sd_event_source_set_child_pidfd_own()** is used to turn this
   behaviour on. Note that regardless which of **sd_event_add_child()**
   and **sd_event_add_child_pidfd()** is used for allocating an event
   source, the watched process has to be a direct child process of
   the invoking process. Also in both cases **SIGCHLD** has to be blocked
   in the invoking process.

   **sd_event_source_get_child_pid()** retrieves the configured PID of a
   child process state change event source created previously with
   **sd_event_add_child()**. It takes the event source object as the
   _source_ parameter and a pointer to a **pid_t** variable to return the
   process ID in.

   **sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd()** retrieves the file descriptor
   referencing the watched process ("pidfd") if this functionality is
   available. On kernels that support the concept the event loop will
   make use of pidfds to watch child processes, regardless of whether
   the individual event sources are allocated via
   **sd_event_add_child()** or **sd_event_add_child_pidfd()**. If the latter
   call was used to allocate the event source, this function returns
   the file descriptor used for allocation. On kernels that do not
   support the pidfd concept this function will fail with **EOPNOTSUPP**.
   This call takes the event source object as the _source_ parameter
   and returns the numeric file descriptor.

   **sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd_own()** may be used to query whether
   the pidfd the event source encapsulates shall be closed when the
   event source is freed. This function returns zero if the pidfd
   shall be left open, and positive if it shall be closed
   automatically. By default, this setting defaults to on if the
   event source was allocated via **sd_event_add_child()** and off if it
   was allocated via **sd_event_add_child_pidfd()**. The
   **sd_event_source_set_child_pidfd_own()** function may be used to
   change the setting and takes a boolean parameter with the new
   setting.

   **sd_event_source_get_child_process_own()** may be used to query
   whether the process the event source watches shall be killed (with
   **SIGKILL**) and reaped when the event source is freed. This function
   returns zero if the process shell be left running, and positive if
   it shall be killed and reaped automatically. By default, this
   setting defaults to off. The
   **sd_event_source_set_child_process_own()** function may be used to
   change the setting and takes a boolean parameter with the new
   setting. Note that currently if the calling process is terminated
   abnormally the watched process might survive even thought the
   event source ceases to exist. This behaviour might change
   eventually.

   **sd_event_source_send_child_signal()** may be used to send a UNIX
   signal to the watched process. If the pidfd concept is supported
   in the kernel, this is implemented via [pidfd_send_signal(2)](../man2/pidfd%5Fsend%5Fsignal.2.html) and
   otherwise via [rt_sigqueueinfo(2)](../man2/rt%5Fsigqueueinfo.2.html) (or via [kill(2)](../man2/kill.2.html) in case _info_ is
   **NULL**). The specified parameters match those of these underlying
   system calls, except that the _info_ is never modified (and is thus
   declared constant). Like for the underlying system calls, the
   _flags_ parameter currently must be zero.

RETURN VALUE top

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

Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

   **-ENOMEM**
       Not enough memory to allocate an object.

   **-EINVAL**
       An invalid argument has been passed. This includes specifying
       an empty mask in _options_ or a mask which contains values
       different than a combination of **WEXITED**, **WSTOPPED**, and
       **WCONTINUED**.

   **-EBUSY**
       A handler is already installed for this child process, or
       **SIGCHLD** is not blocked.

   **-ESTALE**
       The event loop is already terminated.

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

   **-EDOM**
       The passed event source is not a child process event source.

   **-EOPNOTSUPP**
       A pidfd was requested but the kernel does not support this
       concept.

       Added in version 245.

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.

EXAMPLE top

   **Example 1. Exit loop when the child terminates**

       /* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 */

       #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
       #include <assert.h>
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <systemd/sd-event.h>

       int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         pid_t pid = fork();
         assert(pid >= 0);

         /* SIGCHLD signal must be blocked for sd_event_add_child to work */
         sigset_t ss;
         sigemptyset(&ss);
         sigaddset(&ss, SIGCHLD);
         sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &ss, NULL);

         if (pid == 0)  /* child */
           sleep(1);

         else {         /* parent */
           sd_event *e = NULL;
           int r;

           /* Create the default event loop */
           sd_event_default(&e);
           assert(e);

           /* We create a floating child event source (attached to 'e').
            * The default handler will be called with 666 as userdata, which
            * will become the exit value of the loop. */
           r = sd_event_add_child(e, NULL, pid, WEXITED, NULL, (void*) 666);
           assert(r >= 0);

           r = sd_event_loop(e);
           assert(r == 666);

           sd_event_unref(e);
         }

         return 0;
       }

HISTORY top

   **sd_event_add_child()**, **sd_event_child_handler_t()**, and
   **sd_event_source_get_child_pid()** were added in version 217.

   **sd_event_add_child_pidfd()**, **sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd()**,
   **sd_event_source_get_child_pidfd_own()**,
   **sd_event_source_set_child_pidfd_own()**,
   **sd_event_source_get_child_process_own()**,
   **sd_event_source_set_child_process_own()**, and
   **sd_event_source_send_child_signal()** were added in version 245.

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