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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-01-04 19:28:52 -0500
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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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+
+<refentry id="sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>A monkey with a typewriter</contrib>
+ <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
+ <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
+ <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid</refname>
+ <refname>sd_bus_creds_get_mask</refname>
+ <refname>sd_bus_creds_ref</refname>
+ <refname>sd_bus_creds_unref</refname>
+
+ <refpurpose>Retrieve credentials object for the specified PID</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <funcsynopsis>
+ <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-bus.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>uint64_t <parameter>creds_mask</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_bus_creds** <parameter>ret</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>uint64_t <function>sd_bus_creds_get_mask</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const sd_bus_creds* <parameter>c</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>sd_bus_creds* <function>sd_bus_creds_ref</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_bus_creds* <parameter>c</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>sd_bus_creds* <function>sd_bus_creds_unref</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>sd_bus_creds* <parameter>c</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+ </funcsynopsis>
+
+ <para>
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_PID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_PID_STARTTIME</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_TID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_GID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_COMM</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_TID_COMM</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_EXE</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_CMDLINE</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_CGROUP</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIT</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_USER_UNIT</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_SLICE</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_SESSION</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_OWNER_UID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_EFFECTIVE_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_PERMITTED_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_INHERITABLE_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_BOUNDING_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_SELINUX_CONTEXT</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_AUDIT_SESSION_ID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_AUDIT_LOGIN_UID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_WELL_KNOWN_NAMES</constant>,
+ <constant>_SD_BUS_CREDS_ALL</constant>
+ </para>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function> creates a new
+ credentials object and fills it with information about the process
+ <parameter>pid</parameter>. This pointer to this object will
+ be stored in <parameter>ret</parameter> pointer.</para>
+
+ <para>The information that will be stored is determined by
+ <parameter>creds_mask</parameter>. It may contain a subset of ORed
+ constants <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_PID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_PID_STARTTIME</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_TID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_GID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_COMM</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_TID_COMM</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_EXE</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_CMDLINE</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_CGROUP</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIT</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_USER_UNIT</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_SLICE</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_SESSION</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_OWNER_UID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_EFFECTIVE_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_PERMITTED_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_INHERITABLE_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_BOUNDING_CAPS</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_SELINUX_CONTEXT</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_AUDIT_SESSION_ID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_AUDIT_LOGIN_UID</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_UNIQUE_NAME</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_BUS_CREDS_WELL_KNOWN_NAMES</constant>,
+ or <constant>_SD_BUS_CREDS_ALL</constant> to indicate
+ all known fields.</para>
+
+ <para>Fields can be retrieved from the credentials object using
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_pid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ and other functions which correspond directly to the constants
+ listed above.</para>
+
+ <para>A mask of fields which were actually sucessfully set
+ (acquired from <filename>/proc</filename>, etc.) can be retrieved
+ with <function>sd_bus_creds_get_mask()</function>. If the
+ credentials object was created with
+ <function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function>, this will be a
+ subset of fields requested in <parameter>creds_mask</parameter>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_ref</function> creates a new
+ reference to the credentials object <parameter>c</parameter>. This
+ object will not be destroyed until
+ <function>sd_bus_creds_unref</function> has been called as many
+ times plus once more. Once the reference count has dropped to zero,
+ <parameter>c</parameter> cannot be used anymore, so futher
+ calls to <function>sd_bus_creds_ref(c)</function> or
+ <function>sd_bus_creds_unref(c)</function> are illegal.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_unref</function> destroys a reference
+ to <parameter>c</parameter>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Return Value</title>
+
+ <para>On success, <function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function>
+ returns 0 or a positive integer. On failure, it returns a negative
+ errno-style error code.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_get_mask()</function> returns the
+ mask of successfully acquired fields.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_ref</function> always returns the
+ argument.</para>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_unref</function> always returns
+ <constant>NULL</constant>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Reference ownership</title>
+
+ <para>Function <function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function>
+ creates a new object and the caller owns the sole reference. When
+ not needed anymore, this reference should be destroyed with
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_unref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Errors</title>
+
+ <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>-ESRCH</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Specified <parameter>pid</parameter> could not
+ be found.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>-EINVAL</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Specified parameter is invalid
+ (<constant>NULL</constant> in case of output
+ parameters).</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>-ENOMEM</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Memory allocation failed.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+
+ <para><function>sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid()</function> is
+ available as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to
+ with the
+ <constant>libsystemd-bus</constant> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ file.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-bus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_ref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_unref</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_pid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_pid_starttime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_tid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_uid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_gid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_comm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_tid_comm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_exe</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_cmdline</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_cgroup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_user_unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_slice</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_session</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_owner_uid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_has_effective_cap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_has_permitted_cap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_has_inheritable_cap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_has_bounding_cap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_selinux_context</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_audit_session_id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_audit_login_uid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_unique_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_bus_creds_get_well_known_names</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>