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   sd-event - A generic event loop implementation

SYNOPSIS top

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

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

DESCRIPTION top

   sd-event.h is part of [libsystemd(3)](../man3/libsystemd.3.html) and provides a generic event
   loop implementation, based on Linux [epoll(7)](../man7/epoll.7.html).

   See [sd_event_new(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fnew.3.html), [sd_event_run(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Frun.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_add_memory_pressure(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fmemory%5Fpressure.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_unref(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Funref.3.html), [sd_event_source_set_priority(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fpriority.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fenabled.3.html), [sd_event_source_set_userdata(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fuserdata.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_get_event(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fget%5Fevent.3.html), [sd_event_source_get_pending(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fget%5Fpending.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_description(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fdescription.3.html),
   [sd_event_source_set_prepare(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fprepare.3.html), [sd_event_source_set_ratelimit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fratelimit.3.html),
   [sd_event_wait(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fwait.3.html), [sd_event_get_fd(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fget%5Ffd.3.html), [sd_event_set_watchdog(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fset%5Fwatchdog.3.html),
   [sd_event_exit(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fexit.3.html), [sd_event_now(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fnow.3.html) for more information about the
   functions available.

   The event loop design is targeted on running a separate instance
   of the event loop in each thread; it has no concept of
   distributing events from a single event loop instance onto
   multiple worker threads. Dispatching events is strictly ordered
   and subject to configurable priorities. In each event loop
   iteration a single event source is dispatched. Each time an event
   source is dispatched the kernel is polled for new events, before
   the next event source is dispatched. The event loop is designed to
   honor priorities and provide fairness within each priority. It is
   not designed to provide optimal throughput, as this contradicts
   these goals due the limitations of the underlying [epoll(7)](../man7/epoll.7.html)
   primitives.

   The event loop implementation provides the following features:

    1. I/O event sources, based on [epoll(7)](../man7/epoll.7.html)'s file descriptor
       watching, including edge triggered events (**EPOLLET**). See
       [sd_event_add_io(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fio.3.html).

    2. Timer event sources, based on [timerfd_create(2)](../man2/timerfd%5Fcreate.2.html), supporting
       the **CLOCK_MONOTONIC**, **CLOCK_REALTIME**, **CLOCK_BOOTTIME** clocks, as
       well as the **CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM** and **CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM**
       clocks that can resume the system from suspend. When creating
       timer events a required accuracy parameter may be specified
       which allows coalescing of timer events to minimize power
       consumption. See [sd_event_add_time(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Ftime.3.html).

    3. UNIX process signal events, based on [signalfd(2)](../man2/signalfd.2.html), including
       full support for real-time signals, and queued parameters. See
       [sd_event_add_signal(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fsignal.3.html).

    4. Child process state change events, based on [waitid(2)](../man2/waitid.2.html). See
       [sd_event_add_child(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fchild.3.html).

    5. Static event sources, of three types: defer, post and exit,
       for invoking calls in each event loop, after other event
       sources or at event loop termination. See
       [sd_event_add_defer(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fadd%5Fdefer.3.html).

    6. Event sources may be assigned a 64-bit priority value, that
       controls the order in which event sources are dispatched if
       multiple are pending simultaneously. See
       [sd_event_source_set_priority(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fsource%5Fset%5Fpriority.3.html).

    7. The event loop may automatically send watchdog notification
       messages to the service manager. See [sd_event_set_watchdog(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fset%5Fwatchdog.3.html).

    8. The event loop may be integrated into foreign event loops,
       such as the GLib one. See [sd_event_get_fd(3)](../man3/sd%5Fevent%5Fget%5Ffd.3.html) for an example.

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.

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