systemd sd_bus_process 3 sd_bus_process Drive the connection #include <systemd/sd-bus.h> int sd_bus_process sd_bus *bus sd_bus_message **ret sd_bus_process() drives the connection between the client and the message bus. That is, it handles connecting, authentication, and message processing. When invoked pending I/O work is executed, and queued incoming messages are dispatched to registered callbacks. Each time it is invoked a single operation is executed. It returns zero when no operations were pending and positive if a message was processed. When zero is returned the caller should synchronously poll for I/O events before calling into sd_bus_process() again. For that either use the simple, synchronous sd_bus_wait3 call, or hook up the bus connection object to an external or manual event loop using sd_bus_get_fd3. sd_bus_process() processes at most one incoming message per call. If the parameter ret is not NULL and the call processed a message, *ret is set to this message. The caller owns a reference to this message and should call sd_bus_message_unref3 when the message is no longer needed. If ret is not NULL, progress was made, but no message was processed, *ret is set to NULL. If the bus object is connected to an sd-event3 event loop (with sd_bus_attach_event3), it is not necessary to call sd_bus_process() directly as it is invoked automatically when necessary. If progress was made, a positive integer is returned. If no progress was made, 0 is returned. If an error occurs, a negative errno-style error code is returned. Returned errors may indicate the following problems: -EINVAL An invalid bus object was passed. -ECHILD The bus connection was allocated in a parent process and is being reused in a child process after fork(). -ENOTCONN The bus connection has been terminated already. -ECONNRESET The bus connection has been terminated just now. -EBUSY This function is already being called, i.e. sd_bus_process() has been called from a callback function that itself was called by sd_bus_process(). systemd1, sd-bus3, sd_bus_wait3, sd_bus_get_fd3, sd_bus_message_unref3, sd-event3, sd_bus_attach_event3