Function

AstalIOacquire_socket

Declaration

GSocketService*
astal_io_acquire_socket (
  AstalIOApplication* app,
  gchar** sock,
  GError** error
)

Description

Starts a GSocketService and binds XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/astal/<instance_name>.sock. This socket is then used by the astal cli. Not meant for public usage, but for astal_io_application_acquire_socket().

Parameters

app

Type: AstalIOApplication

No description available.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

sock

Type: gchar**

No description available.

The argument will be set by the function.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GSocketService

No description available.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.