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System Event Library Functionssysevent_post_event(3SYSEVENT)


NAME

 sysevent_post_event - post system event for applications

SYNOPSIS

 
cc  [flag ...]  file ...-lsysevent -lnvpair [library ...] 
#include <libsysevent.h>
#include <libnvpair.h>
int sysevent_post_event(char *class, char *subclass, char *vendor, char *publisher, nvlist_t *attr_list, sysevent_id_t *eid);

PARAMETERS

 
attr_list
pointer to an nvlist_t, listing the name-value attributes associated with the event, or NULL if there are no such attributes for this event
class
pointer to a string defining the event class
eid
pointer to a system unique identifier
publisher
pointer to a string defining the event's publisher nam
subclass
pointer to a string defining the event subclass
vendor
pointer to a string defining the vendor

DESCRIPTION

 

The sysevent_post_event() function causes a system event of the specified class, subclass, vendor, and publisher to be generated on behalf of the caller and queued for delivery to the sysevent daemon syseventd(1M).

The vendor must be the company stock symbol of the event posting application. The publisher should be the name of the application generating the event.

For example, all events posted by Sun applications begin with the company's stock symbol, "SUNW". The publisher is usually the name of the application generating the system event. A system event generated by devfsadm(1M) has a publisher string of devfsadm.

The publisher information is used by sysevent consumers to filter unwanted event publishers.

Upon successful queuing of the system event, a unique identifier is assigned to eid.

RETURN VALUES

 

The sysevent_post_event() function returns 0 if the system event has been queued successfully for delivery. Otherwise it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

 

The sysevent_post_event() function will fail if:

ENOMEM
Insufficient resources to queue the system event.
EIO
The syseventd daemon is not responding and events cannot be queued or delivered at this time.
EINVAL
Invalid argument.
EPERM
Permission denied.
EFAULT
A copy error occurred.

EXAMPLES

 Example 1. Post a system event event with no attributes.
 

The following example posts a system event event with no attributes.

 
if (sysevent_post_event(EC_PRIV, "ESC_MYSUBCLASS", "SUNW", argv[0],
    NULL) != 0) {
        fprintf(stdout, "error logging system event\n");
}
Example 2. Post a system event with two name-value pair attributes.
 

The following example posts a system event event with two name-value pair attributes, an integer value and a string.

 
nvlist_t        *attr_list;
uint32_t        uint32_val = 0XFFFFFFFF;
char            *string_val = "string value data";

if (nvlist_alloc(&attr_list, 0, 0) == 0) {
        err = nvlist_add_uint32(attr_list, "uint32 data", uint32_val);
        if (err == 0)
                err = nvlist_add_string(attr_list, "str data",
                    str_value);
        if (err == 0)
                err = sysevent_post_event("EC_PRIV", "ESC_MYSUBCLASS",
                    "SUNW", argv[0], attr_list);
        if (err != 0)
                fprintf(stdout, "error logging system event\n");
        nvlist_free(attr_list);
}

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface StabilityEvolving
MT-LevelMT-Safe

SEE ALSO

 

devfsadm(1M), syseventd(1M), nvlist_add_boolean(3NVPAIR), nvlist_alloc(3NVPAIR), attributes(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 12 Sep 2000

 
      
      
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