udev_monitor_unref(3)

udev_monitor_unref3

Create, acquire and release a udev monitor object

Part of udev_monitor_new_from_netlink(3).

Usage

#include <libudev.h>

struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor_new_from_netlink(struct udev *udev, const char *name);

struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor_ref(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor);

struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor_unref(struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor);

Return value

On success, udev_monitor_new_from_netlink() returns a pointer to the allocated udev monitor. On failure, NULL is returned. udev_monitor_ref() returns the argument that it was passed, unmodified. udev_monitor_unref() always returns NULL.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

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

History

udev_monitor_new_from_netlink(), udev_monitor_ref(), and udev_monitor_unref() were added in version 221.

From libudev-dev 257.13-1~deb13u1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.