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PMDAGETOPTIONS(3) Library Functions Manual PMDAGETOPTIONS(3)
pmdaGetOpt, pmdaGetOptions - get options from arguments, parsing generic PMDA options
#include <pcp/pmapi.h> #include <pcp/pmda.h> int pmdaGetOptions(int argc, char *const *argv, pmdaOptions *opts, pmdaInterface *dispatch); int pmdaGetOpt(int argc, char *const *argv, const char *optstring, pmdaInterface *dispatch, int *err); cc ... -lpcp_pmda -lpcp
These functions are wrappers for pmgetopt_r(3). The behavior of each function is that certain options are assumed to have a pre‐ defined behavior which initializes several fields in the pmdaIn‐ terface structure. The pmdaGetOptions interface allows both short and long options to be given, whereas pmdaGetOpt allows for short form options only. The options that both pmdaGetOptions and pmdaGetOpt will trap are: -Ddebugspec Set the PMAPI(3) debugging options to debugspec, as de‐ scribed in PCPIntro(1). Used for controlling levels of trace output while debugging. -ddomain Set the domain number of this agent. -hhelpfile Obtain the help text (see pmdaText(3)) for the metrics from this file rather than from the path specified with pmdaDSO(3) or pmdaDaemon(3). -iport Expect PMCD to connect on inet port (number or name). -6port Expect PMCD to connect on ipv6 port (number or name). -llogfile Redirect diagnostics and trace output to logfile. -p Expect PMCD to supply stdin/stdout pipe. -usocket Expect PMCD to connect on unix domain socket. The pmdaGetOptions interface will also capture the following op‐ tions, and store them within the opts parameter: -Uusername Set the user account name under which the PMDA should exe‐ cute. Only one of -i, -6, -p and -u may be specified. If none of these three options is given, a pipe (-p) is assumed. When these op‐ tions are encountered by pmdaGetOpt, the option is processed and the next option is examined. Therefore, pmdaGetOpt will only re‐ turn when an option other than those listed above is found, or the end of the list is reached. The returned value will be the argument or EOF, respectively. A PMDA can control which of these options the program will accept with either the opts or optstring argument. To accept all the options, the PMDA should call pmdaGetOptions with the short_op‐ tions field of the opts structure set to the PMDA_OPTIONS macro, or pmdaGetOpt with the option string "D:d:h:i:l:pu:". Any PMDA specific options should be added to these strings in the style of getopt(3), and will be returned by both pmdaGetOptions and pmdaGetOpt if encountered. When a command line option usage error is detected in the pmdaGe‐ tOptions interface, the error field of the opts structure will contain a non-zero error count. pmdaGetOpt takes a pointer to an int, err, which is used as an error count. This variable should be initialized to zero before pmdaGetOpt is first called, and tested when pmdaGetOpt returns EOF. Neither pmdaGetOptions nor pmdaGetOpt modify their argc or argv parameters. The global variables used by the system getopt(3) interface may also be used by the caller of pmdaGetOpt within the argument parsing loop. On the other hand, the pmdaGetOptions interface does not utilize global variables at all (neither reading nor modifying them). Instead, these variables can be access via the opts fields of the same name.
The options -D, -d, -i, -l, -p and -u cannot be reused for other purposes by the PMDA, unless using the override method provided by the pmdaGetOptions interface, which operates in the same way as described for the pmGetOptions(3) interface used by PMAPI client tools. The PMDA must be using PMDA_INTERFACE_2 or later, as specified in the call to pmdaDSO(3) or pmdaDaemon(3).
Both pmdaGetOptions and pmdaGetOpt will display the same error messages as getopt.
pmdbg(1), getopt(3), pmgetopt_r(3), pmGetOptions(3), PMAPI(3), PMDA(3), pmdaDaemon(3), pmdaDSO(3) and pmdaText(3).
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