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NAME top

   sd_event_source_set_description, sd_event_source_get_description -
   Set or retrieve descriptive names of event sources

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **int sd_event_source_set_description(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                       **const char ***_description_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_get_description(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                       **const char** _ret_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   **sd_event_source_set_description()** may be used to set an arbitrary
   descriptive name for the event source object specified as _source_.
   This name will be used in debugging messages generated by
   [sd-event(3)](../man3/sd-event.3.html) for this event source, and may be queried using
   **sd_event_source_get_description()** for debugging purposes. The
   _description_ parameter shall point to a **NUL**-terminated string or be
   **NULL**. In the latter case, the descriptive name will be unset. The
   string is copied internally, hence the _description_ argument is not
   referenced after the function returns.

   **sd_event_source_get_description()** may be used to query the current
   descriptive name assigned to the event source object _source_. It
   returns a pointer to the current name in _ret_, stored in memory
   internal to the event source. The memory is invalidated when the
   event source is destroyed or the descriptive name is changed.

   Event source objects generally have no description set when they
   are created, except for UNIX signal event sources created with
   [sd_event_add_signal(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fsignal.3.html), whose descriptive name is initialized to
   the signal's C constant name (e.g.  "SIGINT" or "SIGTERM").

RETURN VALUE top

   On success, **sd_event_source_set_description()** and
   **sd_event_source_get_description()** return a non-negative integer.
   On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.

Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

   **-EINVAL**
       _source_ is not a valid pointer to an sd_event_source object or
       the _description_ argument for **sd_event_source_get_description()**
       is **NULL**.

   **-ENOMEM**
       Not enough memory to copy the name.

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

   **-ENXIO**
       No name was set for the event source.

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_source_set_description()** and
   **sd_event_source_get_description()** were added in version 229.

SEE ALSO top

   [sd-event(3)](../man3/sd-event.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_add_defer(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fdefer.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_userdata(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fuserdata.3.html)

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