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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-06-21 16:31:06 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-06-21 16:31:06 +0200
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man: document new sd_session_get_state() call
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at all), <literal>lingering</literal> (user not logged
in, but some user services running),
<literal>online</literal> (user logged in, but not
- active), <literal>active</literal> (user logged in on
- an active seat). In the future additional states might
+ active, i.e. has no session in the foreground),
+ <literal>active</literal> (user logged in, and has at
+ least one active session, i.e. one session in the
+ foreground), <literal>closing</literal> (user not
+ logged in, and not lingering, but some processes are
+ still around). In the future additional states might
be defined, client code should be written to be robust
in regards to additional state strings being
returned. The returned string needs to be freed with