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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;

                   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 <[email protected]>



1.4.8                                                 2013-05-23                                            librrd(3)