udev_monitor_receive_device(3)

udev_monitor_receive_device3

Query and modify device monitor

Usage

#include <libudev.h>

struct udev_device *udev_monitor_receive_device(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor);

int udev_monitor_enable_receiving(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor);

int udev_monitor_set_receive_buffer_size(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor, int size);

int udev_monitor_get_fd(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor);

struct udev *udev_monitor_get_udev(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor);

Return value

On success, udev_monitor_receive_device() returns a pointer to a newly referenced device that was received via the monitor. The caller is responsible to drop this reference when done. On failure, NULL is returned.

On success, udev_monitor_enable_receiving() and udev_monitor_set_receive_buffer_size() return an integer greater than, or equal to, 0. On failure, a negative error code is returned.

On success, udev_monitor_get_fd() returns the file descriptor used by this monitor. On failure, a negative error code is returned.

udev_monitor_get_udev() always returns a pointer to the udev context that this monitor is associated with.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

History

udev_monitor_receive_device(), udev_monitor_enable_receiving(), udev_monitor_set_receive_buffer_size(), udev_monitor_get_fd(), and udev_monitor_get_udev() were added in version 221.

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