Method

FwupdClientinhibit

since: 1.8.11

Declaration [src] 

gchar*
fwupd_client_inhibit (
  FwupdClient* self,
  const gchar* reason,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Marks all devices as unavailable for update. Update is only available if there is no other inhibit imposed by other applications or by the system (e.g. low power state).

The same application can inhibit the system multiple times.

Available since: 1.8.11

Parameters

reason

Type: const gchar*

The inhibit reason, e.g. user active

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gchar*

A string to use for fwupd_client_uninhibit_async(), or NULL for failure.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.