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SD-DAEMON(3) sd-daemon SD-DAEMON(3)

NAME top

   sd-daemon, SD_EMERG, SD_ALERT, SD_CRIT, SD_ERR, SD_WARNING,
   SD_NOTICE, SD_INFO, SD_DEBUG - APIs for new-style daemons

SYNOPSIS top

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

   **pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd**

DESCRIPTION top

   sd-daemon.h is part of [libsystemd(3)](../man3/libsystemd.3.html) and provides APIs for
   new-style daemons, as implemented by the [systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html) service
   manager.

   See [sd_listen_fds(3)](../man3/sd%5Flisten%5Ffds.3.html), [sd_notify(3)](../man3/sd%5Fnotify.3.html), [sd_booted(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbooted.3.html), [sd_is_fifo(3)](../man3/sd%5Fis%5Ffifo.3.html),
   [sd_watchdog_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fwatchdog%5Fenabled.3.html) for more information about the functions
   implemented. In addition to these functions, a couple of logging
   prefixes are defined as macros:

       #define SD_EMERG   "<0>"  /* system is unusable */
       #define SD_ALERT   "<1>"  /* action must be taken immediately */
       #define SD_CRIT    "<2>"  /* critical conditions */
       #define SD_ERR     "<3>"  /* error conditions */
       #define SD_WARNING "<4>"  /* warning conditions */
       #define SD_NOTICE  "<5>"  /* normal but significant condition */
       #define SD_INFO    "<6>"  /* informational */
       #define SD_DEBUG   "<7>"  /* debug-level messages */

   These prefixes are intended to be used in conjunction with
   stderr-based logging (or stdout-based logging) as implemented by
   systemd. If a systemd service definition file is configured with
   _StandardError=journal_ or _StandardError=kmsg_ (and similar with
   _StandardOutput=_), these prefixes can be used to encode a log level
   in lines printed. This is similar to the kernel **printk()**-style
   logging. See **klogctl**(2) for more information.

   The log levels are identical to [syslog(3)](../man3/syslog.3.html)'s log level system. To
   use these prefixes simply prefix every line with one of these
   strings. A line that is not prefixed will be logged at the default
   log level SD_INFO.

   **Example 1. Hello World**

   A daemon may log with the log level NOTICE by issuing this call:

       fprintf(stderr, SD_NOTICE "Hello World!\n");

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.

SEE ALSO top

   [systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html), [sd_listen_fds(3)](../man3/sd%5Flisten%5Ffds.3.html), [sd_notify(3)](../man3/sd%5Fnotify.3.html), [sd_booted(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbooted.3.html),
   [sd_is_fifo(3)](../man3/sd%5Fis%5Ffifo.3.html), [sd_watchdog_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fwatchdog%5Fenabled.3.html), [daemon(7)](../man7/daemon.7.html),
   [systemd.service(5)](../man5/systemd.service.5.html), [systemd.socket(5)](../man5/systemd.socket.5.html), [fprintf(3)](../man3/fprintf.3.html), **pkg-config**(1)

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Pages that refer to this page:systemd(1), libsystemd(3), sd_booted(3), sd_is_fifo(3), sd_journal_stream_fd(3), sd_listen_fds(3), sd-login(3), sd_notify(3), sd_watchdog_enabled(3), systemd.exec(5), daemon(7), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)