logWriterIsJournald

fnbool logWriterIsJournald(int outputFd)

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));

Parameters

outputFdoutput file descriptor to check

Returns

TRUE if output_fd points to the journal, FALSE otherwise