SD-PATH(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the SD-PATH(3) page — aka the sd-path one (manual name folded in right here at the top like a lil name tag 🫶). This is all about APIs to query file system paths. That’s the whole vibe 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

copy-paste this exactly, no cap:

#include <systemd/sd-path.h>

pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So sd-path.h is part of libsystemd(3) and it provides APIs to query file system paths. It’s giving the same energy as the command-line functionality provided by systemd-path(1), just in API form 💅

See sd_path_lookup(3) for information about the functions available — that’s where the function tea actually lives 🍵

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to with the libsystemd pkg-config(1) file. Slay, linking is easy 🫶

⚠️ important vibe check: the code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. That means the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread. No sneaky side-thread setenv() shenanigans, bestie 😭

It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started. So do your setenv() era before the thread girlies arrive 🌸

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• systemd(1)
• systemd-path(1)
• pkg-config(1)

go read these too, iykyk 👑

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that’s the whole page, bestie — systemd 261.3 realness, periodt 💜🎀