Function

GLiblog_writer_is_journald

since: 2.50

Declaration

gboolean
g_log_writer_is_journald (
  gint output_fd
)

Description

Check whether the given output_fd file descriptor is a connection to the systemd journal, or something else (like a log file or stdout or stderr).

Invalid file descriptors are accepted and return FALSE, which allows for the following construct without needing any additional error handling:

is_journald = g_log_writer_is_journald (fileno (stderr));

Available since: 2.50

Parameters

output_fd

Type: gint

Output file descriptor to check.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if output_fd points to the journal, FALSE otherwise.