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-rw-r--r--man/libudev.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/sd-journal.xml17
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_enumerate_fields.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_catalog.xml11
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_data.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml11
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_realtime_usec.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_get_usage.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_has_runtime_files.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_next.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_open.xml13
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_print.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_query_unique.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/sd_journal_stream_fd.xml3
-rw-r--r--man/threads-aware.xml17
18 files changed, 68 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/man/libudev.xml b/man/libudev.xml
index 8cb4ba59fc..382c1aa25c 100644
--- a/man/libudev.xml
+++ b/man/libudev.xml
@@ -48,11 +48,9 @@
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
It is used to track library state and link objects together. No
global state is used by libudev, everything is always linked to
- a udev context. Furthermore, multiple different udev contexts can
- be used in parallel by multiple threads. However, a single context
- must not be accessed by multiple threads in parallel. The caller
- is responsible for providing suitable locking if they intend to use
- it from multiple threads.</para>
+ a udev context.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<para>To introspect a local device on a system, a udev device
object can be created via
diff --git a/man/sd-journal.xml b/man/sd-journal.xml
index 8bfcb90ca0..3fa6c75b7e 100644
--- a/man/sd-journal.xml
+++ b/man/sd-journal.xml
@@ -77,16 +77,15 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Thread safety</title>
- <para>Functions that operate on the <structname>sd_journal</structname> object are thread
- agnostic — given <structname>sd_journal</structname> pointer may only be used from one thread at
- a time, but multiple threads may use multiple such objects safely. Other functions —
- those that are used to send entries to the journal, like
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- and similar, or those that are used to retrieve global information like
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- and
+ <para>Functions that operate on <structname>sd_journal</structname> objects are thread agnostic — given
+ <structname>sd_journal</structname> pointer may only be used from one specific thread at all times (and it has to
+ be the very same one during the entire lifetime of the object), but multiple, independent threads may use multiple,
+ independent objects safely. Other functions — those that are used to send entries to the journal, like
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> and similar,
+ or those that are used to retrieve global information like
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_stream_fd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> and
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- — are thread-safe and may be called from multiple threads in parallel.</para>
+ — are fully thread-safe and may be called from multiple threads in parallel.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_enumerate_fields.xml b/man/sd_journal_enumerate_fields.xml
index 95af2c1ee0..c5704f53ad 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_enumerate_fields.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_enumerate_fields.xml
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict" />
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_catalog.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_catalog.xml
index ce37e177bd..80edc08c81 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_catalog.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_catalog.xml
@@ -87,9 +87,14 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>Function <function>sd_journal_get_catalog()</function> is thread-agnostic and only a
- single thread may operate on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object. Function
- <function>sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id()</function> is thread-safe.</para>
+ <para>Function <function>sd_journal_get_catalog()</function> is thread-agnostic and only
+ a single specific thread may operate on a given object during its entire lifetime. It's safe to allocate multiple
+ independent objects and use each from a specific thread in parallel. However, it's not safe to allocate such an
+ object in one thread, and operate or free it from any other, even if locking is used to ensure these threads don't
+ operate on it at the very same time.</para>
+
+ <para>Function <function>sd_journal_get_catalog_for_message_id()</function> is are thread-safe and may be called in
+ parallel from multiple threads.</para>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml
index 6817a3cd54..d5e465b81a 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_cursor.xml
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict" />
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml
index dc8e32bf81..b2a0634f7d 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml
@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict" />
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml
index 99f9500441..464fd16ace 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_data.xml
@@ -156,7 +156,13 @@
success or a negative errno-style error code.</para>
</refsect1>
- <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
+
+ <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
+ </refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
index 7edbc4bc25..2186b685bf 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
@@ -226,14 +226,9 @@ else {
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>The <function>sd_journal_get_fd()</function>,
- <function>sd_journal_get_events()</function>,
- <function>sd_journal_reliable_fd()</function>,
- <function>sd_journal_process()</function> and
- <function>sd_journal_wait()</function> interfaces are available as
- a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
- <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- file.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
+
+ <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_realtime_usec.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_realtime_usec.xml
index 2030e8372d..e0f5c4d2e9 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_realtime_usec.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_realtime_usec.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,13 @@
<function>sd_journal_get_monotonic_usec()</function>.</para>
</refsect1>
- <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" />
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Notes</title>
+
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
+
+ <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
+ </refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_usage.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_usage.xml
index 358a62d066..39f53dd5eb 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_usage.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_usage.xml
@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_has_runtime_files.xml b/man/sd_journal_has_runtime_files.xml
index b7bbf224d4..44fdc8d186 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_has_runtime_files.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_has_runtime_files.xml
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_next.xml b/man/sd_journal_next.xml
index c0ca5a8a14..9a27d1426e 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_next.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_next.xml
@@ -122,8 +122,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_open.xml b/man/sd_journal_open.xml
index 9f600b223f..cf787b7ea1 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_open.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_open.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
-->
-<refentry id="sd_journal_open">
+<refentry id="sd_journal_open"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>sd_journal_open</title>
@@ -184,15 +185,9 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
- <para>The <function>sd_journal_open()</function>,
- <function>sd_journal_open_directory()</function> and
- <function>sd_journal_close()</function> interfaces are available
- as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
- <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- file.</para>
+ <xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_print.xml b/man/sd_journal_print.xml
index f8ff7ba093..e18cf88bbc 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_print.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_print.xml
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ sd_journal_send("MESSAGE=Hello World, this is PID %lu!", (unsigned long) getpid(
<refsect1>
<title>Thread safety</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-safe and may be called in parallel from multiple threads.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="safe"/>
<para><function>sd_journal_sendv()</function> is "async signal safe" in the meaning of <citerefentry
project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal-safety</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_query_unique.xml b/man/sd_journal_query_unique.xml
index c62f333eab..9adafa1144 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_query_unique.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_query_unique.xml
@@ -126,8 +126,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml b/man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml
index 86274071f5..da88d241e8 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml
@@ -120,8 +120,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single thread may operate
- on a given <structname>sd_journal</structname> object.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_stream_fd.xml b/man/sd_journal_stream_fd.xml
index de76cabb4d..8e65dc7658 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_stream_fd.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_stream_fd.xml
@@ -92,8 +92,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Notes</title>
- <para>Function <function>sd_journal_stream_fd()</function> is thread-safe and may be called
- from multiple threads.</para>
+ <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="safe"/>
<xi:include href="libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml" xpointer="pkgconfig-text"/>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/threads-aware.xml b/man/threads-aware.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7985f4acd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/threads-aware.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<!--
+ SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
+-->
+
+<refsect1>
+
+<para id="strict">All functions listed here are thread-agnostic and only a single specific thread may operate on a
+given object during its entire lifetime. It's safe to allocate multiple independent objects and use each from a
+specific thread in parallel. However, it's not safe to allocate such an object in one thread, and operate or free it
+from any other, even if locking is used to ensure these threads don't operate on it at the very same time.</para>
+
+<para id="safe">All functions listed here are thread-safe and may be called in parallel from multiple threads.</para>
+
+</refsect1>