sd-path(3) — Linux manual page

SD-PATH(3)                       sd-path                       SD-PATH(3)

NAME         top

       sd-path - APIs to query file system paths

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <systemd/sd-path.h>

       pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd

DESCRIPTION         top

       sd-path.h is part of libsystemd(3) and provides APIs to query file
       system paths. This functionality is similar to the command-line
       functionality provided by systemd-path(1).

       See sd_path_lookup(3) for information about the functions
       available.

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), which is declared to be
       not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the
       functions described here must not call setenv(3) 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), systemd-path(1), pkg-config(1)

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Pages that refer to this page: libsystemd(3),  sd_path_lookup(3),  systemd.directives(7),  systemd.index(7)

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