sd_path_lookup systemd sd_path_lookup 3 sd_path_lookup sd_path_lookup_strv Query well-known file system paths #include <systemd/sd-path.h> enum { SD_PATH_TEMPORARY, SD_PATH_TEMPORARY_LARGE, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_BINARIES, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_INCLUDE, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PRIVATE, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_ARCH, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_SHARED, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION_FACTORY, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_STATE_FACTORY, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_CONFIGURATION, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_RUNTIME, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_RUNTIME_LOGS, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_STATE_PRIVATE, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_STATE_LOGS, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_STATE_CACHE, SD_PATH_SYSTEM_STATE_SPOOL, SD_PATH_USER_BINARIES, SD_PATH_USER_LIBRARY_PRIVATE, SD_PATH_USER_LIBRARY_ARCH, SD_PATH_USER_SHARED, SD_PATH_USER_CONFIGURATION, SD_PATH_USER_RUNTIME, SD_PATH_USER_STATE_PRIVATE, SD_PATH_USER_STATE_CACHE, SD_PATH_USER, SD_PATH_USER_DOCUMENTS, SD_PATH_USER_MUSIC, SD_PATH_USER_PICTURES, SD_PATH_USER_VIDEOS, SD_PATH_USER_DOWNLOAD, SD_PATH_USER_PUBLIC, SD_PATH_USER_TEMPLATES, SD_PATH_USER_DESKTOP, SD_PATH_SEARCH_BINARIES, SD_PATH_SEARCH_BINARIES_DEFAULT, SD_PATH_SEARCH_LIBRARY_PRIVATE, SD_PATH_SEARCH_LIBRARY_ARCH, SD_PATH_SEARCH_SHARED, SD_PATH_SEARCH_CONFIGURATION_FACTORY, SD_PATH_SEARCH_STATE_FACTORY, SD_PATH_SEARCH_CONFIGURATION, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_UTIL, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_UNIT, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_PRESET, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_USER_PRESET, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_CONF, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_USER_CONF, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_SYSTEM_UNIT, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_USER_UNIT, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_USER_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_SYSTEM_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_USER_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SLEEP, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SHUTDOWN, SD_PATH_TMPFILES, SD_PATH_SYSUSERS, SD_PATH_SYSCTL, SD_PATH_BINFMT, SD_PATH_MODULES_LOAD, SD_PATH_CATALOG, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_NETWORK, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_ENVIRONMENT_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_USER_ENVIRONMENT_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_SYSTEM_ENVIRONMENT_GENERATOR, SD_PATH_SYSTEMD_SEARCH_USER_ENVIRONMENT_GENERATOR, }; int sd_path_lookup uint64_t type const char *suffix char **paths int sd_path_lookup_strv uint64_t type const char *suffix char ***paths Description sd_path_lookup() and sd_bus_path_lookup_strv() return a single path or set of file system paths specified by the argument type. In case of sd_path_lookup() a single NUL-terminated string is returned. When type specifies a set of paths, they are concatenated using : as a separator (as is traditionally done for e.g. $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH). In case of sd_path_lookup_strv() a NULL-terminated array of strings is returned (strv). If suffix suffix is given, it is concatenated to each of the paths after a slash (/). All returned paths are absolute. For paths which refer to user directories, the relevant XDG standard is followed, with support for environment variables like $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR, $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR, ..., and explicit configuration in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf or ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs. See XDG Base Directory Specification for details. systemd-path1 is a wrapper around sd_path_lookup() and allows the same set of paths to be queried. Return Value On success, sd_path_lookup() and sd_path_lookup_strv() return a non-negative integer. On failure, a negative errno-style error number is returned by either function. The returned string or string array (strv) must be free3'd by the caller. Errors Returned errors may indicate the following problems: -EOPNOTSUPP Unknown identifier type. -EINVAL Output argument is NULL. -ENXIO Query failed because of an undefined environment variable (e.g. for SD_PATH_USER_RUNTIME when $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not defined). -ENOMEM Memory allocation failed. Examples Look up the location of ~/Documents Note that the default answer of $HOME/Documents may be overridden by user-dirs.conf or $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR. History sd_path_lookup() and sd_path_lookup_strv() were added in version 246. See Also systemd1 sd-path3 systemd-path1