LIBELOGIND(3)

💅 LIBELOGIND(3) — the libelogind glow-up

okay so real talk, this is libelogind, section 3 of the manual, and she's the library you reach for when you wanna implement services and vibe with elogind. bestie, let's get into it ✨

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🎀 NAME

libelogind — the functions you need for implementing services and interacting with elogind 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS

like, include these, bestie:

#include <elogind/sd-bus.h>
#include <elogind/sd-bus-vtable.h>
#include <elogind/sd-bus-protocol.h>
#include <elogind/sd-daemon.h>
#include <elogind/sd-device.h>
#include <elogind/sd-event.h>
#include <elogind/sd-gpt.h>
#include <elogind/sd-hwdb.h>
#include <elogind/sd-id128.h>
#include <elogind/sd-journal.h>
#include <elogind/sd-login.h>
#include <elogind/sd-messages.h>
#include <elogind/sd-path.h>

and for the build girlies:

pkg-config --cflags --libs libelogind

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

so the libelogind library is giving you functions that let you interact with all the various interfaces that the elogind(8) service manager hands out — plus a bunch of other functions and constants that are genuinely useful for implementing services in general. it's versatile, it's iconic, it ate 💅

if you wanna know about the different parts of the library interface, go read up on sd-bus(3), sd-bus-errors(3), sd-daemon(3), sd-device(3), sd-event(3), sd-hwdb(3), sd-id128(3), sd-journal(3), and sd-login(3). that's where all the lore lives 📚

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👑 INTERFACE STABILITY

strict backwards-compatibility is maintained for the API (application programming interface) and the ABI (application binary interface). no cap. symbol versioning is used, and symbols only get added — they never get removed. she commits. periodt 💖

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🦋 NOTES

the functions described here are available as a shared library, and you can compile against it and link to it with the libelogind pkg-config(8) file. slay 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO

• elogind(8)
• libudev(1)
• pkg-config(1)
• Interface Portability and Stability Promise[1]

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🍓 NOTES (the footnote era)

1. Interface Portability and Stability Promise https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 source/version is elogind 255.24 and the footer says LIBELOGIND(3) — you're so welcome, go be a main character in some services 💜👑