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NAME top

   sd_event_source_set_enabled, sd_event_source_get_enabled,
   SD_EVENT_ON, SD_EVENT_OFF, SD_EVENT_ONESHOT - Enable or disable
   event sources

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **enum {**
           **SD_EVENT_OFF** = 0,
           **SD_EVENT_ON** = 1,
           **SD_EVENT_ONESHOT** = -1,
   };

   **int sd_event_source_set_enabled(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                   **int** _enabled_**);**

   **int sd_event_source_get_enabled(sd_event_source ***_source_**,**
                                   **int ***_ret_**);**

DESCRIPTION top

   **sd_event_source_set_enabled()** may be used to enable or disable the
   event source object specified as _source_. The _enabled_ parameter
   takes one of **SD_EVENT_ON** (to enable), **SD_EVENT_OFF** (to disable) or
   **SD_EVENT_ONESHOT**. If invoked with **SD_EVENT_ONESHOT** the event
   source will be enabled but automatically reset to **SD_EVENT_OFF**
   after one dispatch. For **SD_EVENT_OFF**, the event source _source_ may
   be **NULL**, in which case the function does nothing. Otherwise,
   _source_ must be a valid pointer to an sd_event_source object.

   Event sources that are disabled will not result in event loop
   wakeups and will not be dispatched, until they are enabled again.

   **sd_event_source_get_enabled()** may be used to query whether the
   event source object _source_ is currently enabled or not. If both
   the _source_ and the output parameter _ret_ are **NULL**, this function
   returns false. Otherwise, _source_ must be a valid pointer to an
   sd_event_source object. If the output parameter _ret_ is not **NULL**,
   it is set to the enablement state (one of **SD_EVENT_ON**,
   **SD_EVENT_OFF**, **SD_EVENT_ONESHOT**). The function also returns true if
   the event source is not disabled.

   Event source objects are enabled when they are first created with
   calls such as [sd_event_add_io(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fio.3.html), [sd_event_add_time(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Ftime.3.html). However,
   depending on the event source type they are enabled continuously
   (**SD_EVENT_ON**) or only for a single invocation of the event source
   handler (**SD_EVENT_ONESHOT**). For details see the respective manual
   pages.

   As event source objects stay active and may be dispatched as long
   as there is at least one reference to them, in many cases it is a
   good idea to combine a call to [sd_event_source_unref(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Funref.3.html) with a
   prior call to **sd_event_source_set_enabled()** with **SD_EVENT_OFF**, to
   ensure the event source is not dispatched again until all other
   remaining references are dropped.

RETURN VALUE top

   On success, **sd_event_source_set_enabled()** returns a non-negative
   integer.  **sd_event_source_get_enabled()** returns zero if the source
   is disabled (**SD_EVENT_OFF**) and a positive integer otherwise. 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.

   **-ENOMEM**
       Not enough memory.

   **-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_source_set_enabled()** and **sd_event_source_get_enabled()**
   were added in version 229.

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Pages that refer to this page:sd-event(3), sd_event_add_child(3), sd_event_add_defer(3), sd_event_add_inotify(3), sd_event_add_io(3), sd_event_add_memory_pressure(3), sd_event_add_signal(3), sd_event_add_time(3), sd_event_source_set_prepare(3), sd_event_source_set_ratelimit(3), sd_event_source_unref(3), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)

sd_event_source_set_enabled(3) - Linux manual page (original) (raw)

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