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<a href="../libudev/index.html">gudev </a><span style="float:right">systemd 219</span><hr><div class="refentry"><a name="sd_notify"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>sd_notify, sd_notifyf, sd_pid_notify, sd_pid_notifyf, sd_pid_notify_with_fds — Notify service manager about start-up completion and other service status changes</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><pre class="funcsynopsisinfo">#include <systemd/sd-daemon.h></pre><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_notify</b>(</code></td><td>int <var class="pdparam">unset_environment</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">state</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_notifyf</b>(</code></td><td>int <var class="pdparam">unset_environment</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">format</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>...<code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_pid_notify</b>(</code></td><td>pid_t <var class="pdparam">pid</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">unset_environment</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">state</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_pid_notifyf</b>(</code></td><td>pid_t <var class="pdparam">pid</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">unset_environment</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">format</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>...<code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">sd_pid_notify_with_fds</b>(</code></td><td>pid_t <var class="pdparam">pid</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">unset_environment</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const char *<var class="pdparam">state</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const int *<var class="pdparam">fds</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>unsigned <var class="pdparam">n_fds</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139804571070448"></a><h2 id="Description">Description<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Description">¶</a></h2><p><code class="function">sd_notify()</code> may be called by a service
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to notify the service manager about state changes. It can be used
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to send arbitrary information, encoded in an
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environment-block-like string. Most importantly it can be used for
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start-up completion notification.</p><p>If the <em class="parameter"><code>unset_environment</code></em> parameter is
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non-zero, <code class="function">sd_notify()</code> will unset the
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<code class="varname">$NOTIFY_SOCKET</code> environment variable before
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returning (regardless of whether the function call itself
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succeeded or not). Further calls to
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<code class="function">sd_notify()</code> will then fail, but the variable
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is no longer inherited by child processes.</p><p>The <em class="parameter"><code>state</code></em> parameter should contain a
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newline-separated list of variable assignments, similar in style
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to an environment block. A trailing newline is implied if none is
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specified. The string may contain any kind of variable
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assignments, but the following shall be considered
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well-known:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt id="READY=1"><span class="term">READY=1</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#READY=1">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Tells the service manager that service startup
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is finished. This is only used by systemd if the service
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definition file has Type=notify set. Since there is little
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value in signaling non-readiness, the only value services
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should send is "<code class="literal">READY=1</code>" (i.e.
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"<code class="literal">READY=0</code>" is not defined).</p></dd><dt id="RELOADING=1"><span class="term">RELOADING=1</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#RELOADING=1">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Tells the service manager that the service is
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reloading its configuration. This is useful to allow the
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service manager to track the service's internal state, and
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present it to the user. Note that a service that sends this
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notification must also send a "<code class="literal">READY=1</code>"
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notification when it completed reloading its
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configuration.</p></dd><dt id="STOPPING=1"><span class="term">STOPPING=1</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#STOPPING=1">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Tells the service manager that the service is
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beginning its shutdown. This is useful to allow the service
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manager to track the service's internal state, and present it
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to the user.</p></dd><dt id="STATUS=..."><span class="term">STATUS=...</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#STATUS=...">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Passes a single-line UTF-8 status string back
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to the service manager that describes the service state. This
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is free-form and can be used for various purposes: general
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state feedback, fsck-like programs could pass completion
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percentages and failing programs could pass a human readable
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error message. Example: "<code class="literal">STATUS=Completed 66% of file
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system check...</code>"</p></dd><dt id="ERRNO=..."><span class="term">ERRNO=...</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#ERRNO=...">¶</a></dt><dd><p>If a service fails, the errno-style error
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code, formatted as string. Example: "<code class="literal">ERRNO=2</code>"
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for ENOENT.</p></dd><dt id="BUSERROR=..."><span class="term">BUSERROR=...</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#BUSERROR=...">¶</a></dt><dd><p>If a service fails, the D-Bus error-style
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error code. Example:
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"<code class="literal">BUSERROR=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut</code>"</p></dd><dt id="MAINPID=..."><span class="term">MAINPID=...</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#MAINPID=...">¶</a></dt><dd><p>The main process ID (PID) of the service, in
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case the service manager did not fork off the process itself.
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Example: "<code class="literal">MAINPID=4711</code>"</p></dd><dt id="WATCHDOG=1"><span class="term">WATCHDOG=1</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#WATCHDOG=1">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Tells the service manager to update the
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watchdog timestamp. This is the keep-alive ping that services
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need to issue in regular intervals if
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<code class="varname">WatchdogSec=</code> is enabled for it. See
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<a href="systemd.service.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd.service</span>(5)</span></a>
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for information how to enable this functionality and
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<a href="sd_watchdog_enabled.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sd_watchdog_enabled</span>(3)</span></a>
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for the details of how the service can check if the the
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watchdog is enabled. </p></dd><dt id="FDSTORE=1"><span class="term">FDSTORE=1</span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#FDSTORE=1">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Stores additional file descriptors in the
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service manager. File descriptors sent this way will be
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maintained per-service by the service manager and be passed
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again using the usual file descriptor passing logic on the
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next invocation of the service (see
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<a href="sd_listen_fds.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sd_listen_fds</span>(3)</span></a>).
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This is useful for implementing service restart schemes where
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services serialize their state to <code class="filename">/run</code>,
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push their file descriptors to the system manager, and are
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then restarted, retrieving their state again via socket
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passing and <code class="filename">/run</code>. Note that the service
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manager will accept messages for a service only if
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<code class="varname">FileDescriptorStoreMax=</code> is set to non-zero
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for it (defaults to zero). See
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<a href="systemd.service.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd.service</span>(5)</span></a>
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for details. Multiple arrays of file descriptors may be sent
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in separate messages, in which case the arrays are combined.
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Note that the service manager removes duplicate file
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descriptors before passing them to the service. Use
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<code class="function">sd_pid_notify_with_fds()</code> to send messages
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with "<code class="literal">FDSTORE=1</code>", see
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below.</p></dd></dl></div><p>It is recommended to prefix variable names that are not
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listed above with <code class="varname">X_</code> to avoid namespace
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clashes.</p><p>Note that systemd will accept status data sent from a
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service only if the <code class="varname">NotifyAccess=</code> option is
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correctly set in the service definition file. See
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<a href="systemd.service.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd.service</span>(5)</span></a>
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for details.</p><p><code class="function">sd_notifyf()</code> is similar to
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<code class="function">sd_notify()</code> but takes a
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<code class="function">printf()</code>-like format string plus
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arguments.</p><p><code class="function">sd_pid_notify()</code> and
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<code class="function">sd_pid_notifyf()</code> are similar to
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<code class="function">sd_notify()</code> and
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<code class="function">sd_notifyf()</code> but take a process ID (PID) to
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use as originating PID for the message as first argument. This is
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useful to send notification messages on behalf of other processes,
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provided the appropriate privileges are available. If the PID
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argument is specified as 0 the process ID of the calling process
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is used, in which case the calls are fully equivalent to
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<code class="function">sd_notify()</code> and
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<code class="function">sd_notifyf()</code>.</p><p><code class="function">sd_pid_notify_with_fds()</code> is similar to
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<code class="function">sd_pid_notify()</code> but takes an additional array
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of file descriptors. These file descriptors are sent along the
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notification message to the service manager. This is particularly
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useful for sending "<code class="literal">FDSTORE=1</code>" messages, as
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described above. The additional arguments are a pointer to the
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file descriptor array plus the number of file descriptors in the
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array. If the number of file descriptors is passed as 0, the call
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is fully equivalent to <code class="function">sd_pid_notify()</code>, i.e.
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no file descriptors are passed. Note that sending file descriptors
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to the service manager on messages that do not expect them (i.e.
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without "<code class="literal">FDSTORE=1</code>") they are immediately closed
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on reception.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139804566108384"></a><h2 id="Return Value">Return Value<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Return%20Value">¶</a></h2><p>On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style error
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code. If <code class="varname">$NOTIFY_SOCKET</code> was not set and hence
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no status data could be sent, 0 is returned. If the status was
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sent, these functions return with a positive return value. In
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order to support both, init systems that implement this scheme and
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those which do not, it is generally recommended to ignore the
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return value of this call.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139804566106416"></a><h2 id="Notes">Notes<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Notes">¶</a></h2><p><a name="pkgconfig-text"></a>These APIs are implemented as a shared
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library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
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<code class="constant">libsystemd</code> <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/pkg-config"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">pkg-config</span>(1)</span></a>
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file.</p><p>Internally, these functions send a single datagram with the
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state string as payload to the <code class="constant">AF_UNIX</code> socket
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referenced in the <code class="varname">$NOTIFY_SOCKET</code> environment
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variable. If the first character of
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<code class="varname">$NOTIFY_SOCKET</code> is "<code class="literal">@</code>", the
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string is understood as Linux abstract namespace socket. The
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datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of the sending
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service, using SCM_CREDENTIALS.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139804566102448"></a><h2 id="Environment">Environment<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Environment">¶</a></h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt id="$NOTIFY_SOCKET"><span class="term"><code class="varname">$NOTIFY_SOCKET</code></span><a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this term" href="#%24NOTIFY_SOCKET">¶</a></dt><dd><p>Set by the service manager for supervised
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processes for status and start-up completion notification.
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This environment variable specifies the socket
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<code class="function">sd_notify()</code> talks to. See above for
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details.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139804566098832"></a><h2 id="Examples">Examples<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Examples">¶</a></h2><div class="example"><a name="idm139804566098192"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 1. Start-up Notification</b></p><div class="example-contents"><p>When a service finished starting up, it might issue the
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following call to notify the service manager:</p><pre class="programlisting">sd_notify(0, "READY=1");</pre></div></div><br class="example-break"><div class="example"><a name="idm139804566096288"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 2. Extended Start-up Notification</b></p><div class="example-contents"><p>A service could send the following after completing
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initialization:</p><pre class="programlisting">sd_notifyf(0, "READY=1\n"
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"STATUS=Processing requests...\n"
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"MAINPID=%lu",
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(unsigned long) getpid());</pre></div></div><br class="example-break"><div class="example"><a name="idm139804566094272"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 3. Error Cause Notification</b></p><div class="example-contents"><p>A service could send the following shortly before exiting, on failure:</p><pre class="programlisting">sd_notifyf(0, "STATUS=Failed to start up: %s\n"
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"ERRNO=%i",
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strerror(errno),
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errno);</pre></div></div><br class="example-break"><div class="example"><a name="idm139804566092368"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 4. Store a File Descriptor in the Service Manager</b></p><div class="example-contents"><p>To store an open file descriptor in the service manager,
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in order to continue operation after a service restart without
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losing state use "<code class="literal">FDSTORE=1</code>":</p><pre class="programlisting">sd_pid_notify_with_fds(0, 0, "FDSTORE=1", &fd, 1);</pre></div></div><br class="example-break"></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139804566089584"></a><h2 id="See Also">See Also<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#See%20Also">¶</a></h2><p>
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<a href="systemd.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd</span>(1)</span></a>,
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<a href="sd-daemon.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sd-daemon</span>(3)</span></a>,
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<a href="daemon.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">daemon</span>(7)</span></a>,
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<a href="systemd.service.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd.service</span>(5)</span></a>,
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<a href="sd_watchdog_enabled.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">sd_watchdog_enabled</span>(3)</span></a>
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