librrd(3) rrdtool librrd(3)
NAME
librrd - RRD library functions
DESCRIPTION
librrd contains most of the functionality in RRDTool. The command line
utilities and language bindings are often just wrappers around the code
contained in librrd.
This manual page documents the librrd API.
NOTE: This document is a work in progress, and should be considered
incomplete as long as this warning persists. For more information
about the librrd functions, always consult the source code.
CORE FUNCTIONS
rrd_dump_cb_r(char *filename, int opt_header, rrd_output_callback_t cb,
void *user)
In some situations it is necessary to get the output of "rrd_dump"
without writing it to a file or the standard output. In such cases
an application can ask rrd_dump_cb_r to call an user-defined
function each time there is output to be stored somewhere. This can
be used, to e.g. directly feed an XML parser with the dumped output
or transfer the resulting string in memory.
The arguments for rrd_dump_cb_r are the same as for rrd_dump_opt_r
except that the output filename parameter is replaced by the user-
defined callback function and an additional parameter for the
callback function that is passed untouched, i.e. to store
information about the callback state needed for the user-defined
callback to function properly.
Recent versions of rrd_dump_opt_r internally use this callback
mechanism to write their output to the file provided by the user.
size_t rrd_dump_opt_cb_fileout(
const void *data,
size_t len,
void *user)
{
return fwrite(data, 1, len, (FILE *)user);
}
The associated call for rrd_dump_cb_r looks like
res = rrd_dump_cb_r(filename, opt_header,
rrd_dump_opt_cb_fileout, (void *)out_file);
where the last parameter specifies the file handle
rrd_dump_opt_cb_fileout should write to. There's no specific
condition for the callback to detect when it is called for the
first time, nor for the last time. If you require this for
initialization and cleanup you should do those tasks before and
after calling rrd_dump_cr_r respectively.
UTILITY FUNCTIONS
rrd_random()
Generates random numbers just like random(). This further ensures
that the random number generator is seeded exactly once per
process.
rrd_add_ptr(void ***dest, size_t *dest_size, void *src)
Dynamically resize the array pointed to by "dest". "dest_size" is
a pointer to the current size of "dest". Upon successful
realloc(), the "dest_size" is incremented by 1 and the "src"
pointer is stored at the end of the new "dest". Returns 1 on
success, 0 on failure.
type **arr = NULL;
type *elem = "whatever";
size_t arr_size = 0;
if (!rrd_add_ptr(&arr, &arr_size, elem))
handle_failure();
rrd_add_strdup(char ***dest, size_t *dest_size, char *src)
Like "rrd_add_ptr", except adds a "strdup" of the source string.
char **arr = NULL;
size_t arr_size = NULL;
char *str = "example text";
if (!rrd_add_strdup(&arr, &arr_size, str))
handle_failure();
rrd_free_ptrs(void ***src, size_t *cnt)
Free an array of pointers allocated by "rrd_add_ptr" or
"rrd_add_strdup". Also frees the array pointer itself. On return,
the source pointer will be NULL and the count will be zero.
/* created as above */
rrd_free_ptrs(&arr, &arr_size);
/* here, arr == NULL && arr_size == 0 */
rrd_mkdir_p(const char *pathname, mode_t mode)
Create the directory named "pathname" including all of its parent
directories (similar to "mkdir -p" on the command line - see
mkdir(1) for more information). The argument "mode" specifies the
permissions to use. It is modified by the process's "umask". See
mkdir(2) for more details.
The function returns 0 on success, a negative value else. In case
of an error, "errno" is set accordingly. Aside from the errors
documented in mkdir(2), the function may fail with the following
errors:
EINVAL
"pathname" is "NULL" or the empty string.
ENOMEM
Insufficient memory was available.
any error returned by stat(2)
In contrast to mkdir(2), the function does not fail if "pathname"
already exists and is a directory.
AUTHOR
RRD Contributors <rrd-developers AT lists.ch>
1.4.8 2013-05-23 librrd(3)