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<refentryinfo>

<title>sd_pid_get_session</title>

<productname>systemd</productname>

<authorgroup>

<author>

<contrib>Developer</contrib>

<firstname>Lennart</firstname>

<surname>Poettering</surname>

<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>

</author>

</authorgroup>

</refentryinfo>

<refmeta>

<refentrytitle>sd_pid_get_session</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

</refmeta>

<refnamediv>

<refname>sd_pid_get_session</refname>

<refname>sd_pid_get_unit</refname>

<refname>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</refname>

<refpurpose>Determine session, service or owner of a session of a specific PID</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>

<funcsynopsis>

<funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-login.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

<funcprototype>

<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_session</function></funcdef>

<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>char** <parameter>session</parameter></paramdef>

</funcprototype>

<funcprototype>

<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_unit</function></funcdef>

<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>char** <parameter>unit</parameter></paramdef>

</funcprototype>

<funcprototype>

<funcdef>int <function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid</function></funcdef>

<paramdef>pid_t <parameter>pid</parameter></paramdef>

<paramdef>uid_t* <parameter>uid</parameter></paramdef>

</funcprototype>

</funcsynopsis>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>

<title>Description</title>

<para><function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> may be

used to determine the login session identifier of a

process identified by the specified process

identifier. The session identifier is a short string,

suitable for usage in file system paths. Note that not

all processes are part of a login session (e.g. system

service processes, user processes that are shared

between multiple sessions of the same user, or kernel

threads). For processes not being part of a login

session this function will fail. The returned string

needs to be freed with the libc

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>

call after use.</para>

<para><function>sd_pid_get_unit()</function> may be

used to determine the systemd unit (i.e. system

service) identifier of a process identified by the

specified process identifier. The unit name is a short

string, suitable for usage in file system paths. Note

that not all processes are part of a unit/service

(e.g. user processes, or kernel threads). For

processes not being part of a systemd unit/system

service this function will fail. The returned string

needs to be freed with the libc

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>

call after use.</para>

<para><function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function> may

be used to determine the Unix user identifier of the

owner of the session of a process identified the

specified PID. Note that this function will succeed

for user processes which are shared between multiple

login sessions of the same user, where

<function>sd_pid_get_session()</function> will

fail. For processes not being part of a login session

and not being a shared process of a user this function

will fail.</para>

<para>If the <literal>pid</literal> parameter of any

of these functions is passed as 0 the operation is

executed for the calling process.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>

<title>Return Value</title>

<para>On success these calls return 0 or a positive

integer. On failure, these calls return a negative

errno-style error code.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>

<title>Notes</title>

<para>The <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>,

<function>sd_pid_get_pid()</function>, and

<function>sd_pid_get_owner_uid()</function> interfaces

are available as shared library, which can be compiled

and linked to with the

<literal>libsystemd-login</literal>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>

file.</para>

<para>Note that the login session identifier as

returned by <function>sd_pid_get_session()</function>

is completely unrelated to the process session

identifier as returned by

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>

<title>See Also</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_session_is_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>getsid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>