how to query termux wakelock

I'm currently developing a small application for temporarily monitoring sensors in c, that should initiate a wakelock and release it after it ran but not release it, if a wakelock was aquired before execution. essentially this is my goal: was wake lock present before the application was executed? - ignore it wasn't it present before the application was executed? - obtain and clear it throughout the lifetime of this application --- when running termux-notification-list, I can check if a wakelock is currently present by searching through it's output until I find this:

{
    "id": 1337,
    "tag": "",
    "key": "0|com.termux|1337|null|10179",
    "group": "",
    "packageName": "com.termux",
    "title": "Termux",
    "content": "1 session (wake lock held)",
    "when": "2024-11-04 15:14:24"
}

### is there a better way to figure out if a wakelock is currently in place? I consider querying notifications a bad idea, as notifications can be discarded even if they are permanent.