sd-path(3)

sd-path3

Apis to query file system paths

Usage

#include <systemd/sd-path.h>

pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd

Overview

sd-path.h is part of libsystemd(3) and provides APIs to query file system paths. This functionality is similar to the command-line functionality provided by systemd-path(1).

See sd_path_lookup(3) for information about the functions available.

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.

The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From systemd-libs 262.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.