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6 <refentry id="sd_seat_get_active" conditional='HAVE_PAM'
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10 <title>sd_seat_get_active</title>
11 <productname>systemd</productname>
15 <refentrytitle>sd_seat_get_active</refentrytitle>
16 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
20 <refname>sd_seat_get_active</refname>
21 <refname>sd_seat_get_sessions</refname>
22 <refname>sd_seat_can_tty</refname>
23 <refname>sd_seat_can_graphical</refname>
24 <refpurpose>Determine state of a specific seat</refpurpose>
29 <funcsynopsisinfo>#include <systemd/sd-login.h></funcsynopsisinfo>
32 <funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_get_active</function></funcdef>
33 <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
34 <paramdef>char **<parameter>session</parameter></paramdef>
35 <paramdef>uid_t *<parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>
39 <funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_get_sessions</function></funcdef>
40 <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
41 <paramdef>char ***<parameter>ret_sessions</parameter></paramdef>
42 <paramdef>uid_t **<parameter>ret_uids</parameter></paramdef>
43 <paramdef>unsigned int *<parameter>ret_n_uids</parameter></paramdef>
47 <funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_can_tty</function></funcdef>
48 <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
52 <funcdef>int <function>sd_seat_can_graphical</function></funcdef>
53 <paramdef>const char *<parameter>seat</parameter></paramdef>
59 <title>Description</title>
61 <para><function>sd_seat_get_active()</function> may be used to
62 determine which session is currently active on a seat, if there is
63 any. Returns the session identifier and the user identifier of the
64 Unix user the session is belonging to. Either the session or the
65 user identifier parameter can be passed <constant>NULL</constant>,
66 in case only one of the parameters shall be queried. The returned
67 string needs to be freed with the libc
68 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
69 call after use.</para>
71 <para><function>sd_seat_get_sessions()</function> may be used to determine all sessions on the specified
72 seat. Returns two arrays, one (<constant>NULL</constant> terminated) with the session identifiers of the
73 sessions and one with the user identifiers of the Unix users the sessions belong to. An additional
74 parameter may be used to return the number of entries in the latter array. This value is the same as the
75 return value if the return value is nonnegative. The output parameters may be passed as
76 <constant>NULL</constant> in case these output values are not needed. The arrays and the strings
77 referenced by them need to be freed with the libc <citerefentry
78 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> call after
79 use. Note that instead of an empty array <constant>NULL</constant> may be returned and should be
80 considered equivalent to an empty array.</para>
82 <para><function>sd_seat_can_tty()</function> may be used to
83 determine whether a specific seat provides TTY functionality, i.e.
84 is useful as a text console.</para>
86 <para><function>sd_seat_can_graphical()</function> may be used to
87 determine whether a specific seat provides graphics functionality,
88 i.e. is useful as a graphics display.</para>
90 <para>If the <varname>seat</varname> parameter of any of these
91 functions is passed as <constant>NULL</constant>, the operation is
92 executed for the seat of the session of the calling process, if
97 <title>Return Value</title>
99 <para> On success, <function>sd_seat_get_active()</function> returns 0 or a positive integer. On success,
100 <function>sd_seat_get_sessions()</function> returns the number of entries in the session identifier
101 array. If the test succeeds,
102 <function>sd_seat_can_tty()</function> and <function>sd_seat_can_graphical()</function> return a positive
103 integer, if it fails 0. On failure, these calls return a negative errno-style error code.</para>
106 <title>Errors</title>
108 <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
113 <term><constant>-ENODATA</constant></term>
115 <listitem><para>The given field is not specified for the described seat.</para>
120 <term><constant>-ENXIO</constant></term>
122 <listitem><para>The specified seat is unknown.</para>
127 <term><constant>-EINVAL</constant></term>
129 <listitem><para>An input parameter was invalid (out of range, or <constant>NULL</constant>, where
130 that is not accepted).</para></listitem>
134 <term><constant>-ENOMEM</constant></term>
136 <listitem><para>Memory allocation failed.</para></listitem>
142 <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
145 <title>History</title>
147 <para><function>sd_seat_can_tty()</function> and
148 <function>sd_seat_can_graphical()</function> were added in version 186.</para>
152 <title>See Also</title>
155 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
156 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
157 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_session_get_seat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>