pmindomstr(3) — Linux manual page
PMINDOMSTR(3) Library Functions Manual PMINDOMSTR(3)
NAME
pmInDomStr, pmInDomStr_r - convert a performance metric instance domain identifier into a string
C SYNOPSIS
#include <pcp/pmapi.h> const char *pmInDomStr(pmInDom indom); char *pmInDomStr_r(pmInDom indom, char *buf, int buflen); cc ... -lpcp
DESCRIPTION
For use in error and diagnostic messages, pmInDomStr return a 'human readable' version of the specified instance domain identifier. The pmInDomStr_r function does the same, but stores the result in a user-supplied buffer buf of length buflen, which should have room for at least 20 bytes. The value for the instance domain indom is typically extracted from a pmDesc structure, following a call to pmLookupDesc(3) for a particular performance metric. Internally, an instance domain identifier is encoded with two fields: domain and serial. pmInDomStr returns a string with each of the fields appearing as decimal numbers, separated by periods. The string value returned by pmInDomStr is held in a single static buffer, so the returned value is only valid until the next call to pmInDomStr.
NOTES
pmInDomStr returns a pointer to a static buffer and hence is not thread-safe. Multi-threaded applications should use pmInDomStr_r instead.
PCP ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5). Values for these variables may be obtained programmatically using the pmGetConfig(3) function.
SEE ALSO
PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3), pmIDStr(3), pmTypeStr(3), pmSemStr(3), pmUnitsStr(3), pmLookupDesc(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
COLOPHON
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project. Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to pcp@groups.io. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2024-06-14.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org Performance Co-Pilot PCP PMINDOMSTR(3)
Pages that refer to this page: pmidstr(3), pmindom_helper(3), pmsemstr(3), pmtypestr(3), pmunitsstr(3), pmwebapi(3)