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SDEVENTADDDEFER(3) sd_event_add_defer SDEVENTADDDEFER(3)

NAME top

   sd_event_add_defer, sd_event_add_post, sd_event_add_exit,
   sd_event_handler_t - Add static event sources to an event loop

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **typedef struct sd_event_source sd_event_source;**

   **typedef int (*sd_event_handler_t)(sd_event_source ***_s_**,**
                                     **void ***_userdata_**);**

   **int sd_event_add_defer(sd_event ***_event_**, sd_event_source** _source_**,**
                          **sd_event_handler_t** _handler_**,**
                          **void ***_userdata_**);**

   **int sd_event_add_post(sd_event ***_event_**, sd_event_source** _source_**,**
                         **sd_event_handler_t** _handler_**, void ***_userdata_**);**

   **int sd_event_add_exit(sd_event ***_event_**, sd_event_source** _source_**,**
                         **sd_event_handler_t** _handler_**, void ***_userdata_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   These three functions add new static event sources 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
   event sources are enabled statically and will "fire" when the
   event loop is run and the conditions described below are met.

   The _handler_ is a function to call or **NULL**. The handler function
   will be passed the _userdata_ pointer, which may be chosen freely by
   the caller. 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.

   **sd_event_add_defer()** adds a new event source that will be
   dispatched instantly, before the event loop goes to sleep again
   and waits for new events. By default, the handler will be called
   once (**SD_EVENT_ONESHOT**). Note that if the event source is set to
   **SD_EVENT_ON** the event loop will never go to sleep again, but
   continuously call the handler, possibly interleaved with other
   event sources.

   **sd_event_add_post()** adds a new event source that is run before the
   event loop will sleep and wait for new events, but only after at
   least one other non-post event source was dispatched. By default,
   the source is enabled permanently (**SD_EVENT_ON**). Note that this
   event source type will still allow the event loop to go to sleep
   again, even if set to **SD_EVENT_ON**, as long as no other event
   source is ever triggered.

   **sd_event_add_exit()** adds a new event source that will be
   dispatched when the event loop is terminated with
   [sd_event_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fexit.3.html).

   The [sd_event_source_set_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fenabled.3.html) function may be used to enable
   the event source permanently (**SD_EVENT_ON**) or to make it fire just
   once (**SD_EVENT_ONESHOT**).

   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).

   If the second parameter of these functions 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.

   If the _handler_ parameter to **sd_event_add_defer()** or
   **sd_event_add_post()** 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). Similar functionality is not
   available for **sd_event_add_exit()**, as these types of event sources
   are only dispatched when exiting anyway.

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.

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

   **-ECHILD**
       The event loop 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_event_add_defer()**, **sd_event_add_post()**, **sd_event_add_exit()**,
   and **sd_event_handler_t()** were added in version 217.

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_now(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fnow.3.html),
   [sd_event_add_io(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fio.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_child(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fchild.3.html), [sd_event_add_inotify(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Finotify.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fenabled.3.html), [sd_event_source_set_priority(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fpriority.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_userdata(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fuserdata.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_description(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fdescription.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_floating(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Ffloating.3.html), [sd_event_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fexit.3.html)

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