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6 pmdaText - extract metric help text for a PMDA
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9 #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
10 #include <pcp/impl.h>
11 #include <pcp/pmda.h>
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13 int pmdaText(int ident, int type, char **buffer, pmdaExt *pmda);
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18 As part of the Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) API (see
19 PMDA(3)), pmdaText uses the standard PMDA(3) data structures to return
20 the help text for metric ident in buffer. The help text must be
21 located in help text files created with newhelp(1), and the associated
22 files are automatically opened by pmdaInit(3).
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24 The path to the (basename of the) help text files can be set in the
25 calls to pmdaDSO(3) or pmdaDaemon(3) and overridden by the -h command
26 line option in pmdaGetOpt(3).
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28 The encoding of ident follows the internal scheme used below the rou‐
29 tines pmLookupText(3) and pmLookupInDomText(3), namely ident encodes
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33 The type argument is a bit mask that encodes the interpretation of
34 ident and the requested form of help text, as follows: either
35 PM_TEXT_PMID if ident is a metric identifier, or PM_TEXT_INDOM if ident
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37 one line help text or PM_TEXT_HELP for the full help text.
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43 If the requested help text could not be obtained, pmdaText will return
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