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PMDAGETOPTIONS(3)       Library Functions Manual       PMDAGETOPTIONS(3)

NAME         top

       pmdaGetOpt, pmdaGetOptions - get options from arguments, parsing
       generic PMDA options

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #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

DESCRIPTION         top

       These functions are wrappers for pmgetopt_r(3).  The behavior of
       each function is that certain options are assumed to have a
       predefined behavior which initializes several fields in the
       pmdaInterface 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
              described 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
       options, and store them within the opts parameter:

       -Uusername
              Set the user account name under which the PMDA should
              execute.

       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
       options are encountered by pmdaGetOpt, the option is processed
       and the next option is examined.  Therefore, pmdaGetOpt will only
       return 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_options 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
       pmdaGetOptions 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.

CAVEAT         top

       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).

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       Both pmdaGetOptions and pmdaGetOpt will display the same error
       messages as getopt.

SEE ALSO         top

       pmdbg(1), getopt(3), pmgetopt_r(3), pmGetOptions(3), PMAPI(3),
       PMDA(3), pmdaDaemon(3), pmdaDSO(3) and pmdaText(3).

COLOPHON         top

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