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Re: Possibly quirky libpcp_pmda behavior?

To: Max Matveev <makc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Possibly quirky libpcp_pmda behavior?
From: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:41:27 +1100
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Hi (ghost of?) Max,

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:29 +1100, Max Matveev wrote:
> >>>>> "nscott" == Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>  nscott> I have an agent which is returning PM_ERR_APPVERSION for some
>  nscott> of its metric values, for metrics not supported on a
>  nscott> particular platform version.
> 
> What about returning PM_TYPE_NOSUPPORT instead of returning an error?

Hmm... sounds good...

/me looks

No, not sure that will help - PM_TYPE_NOSUPPORT is -1, which will trip
the less-than-zero guard on the fetchCallback call in libpcp_pmda, and
that will end up in the same fprintf.  No?

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


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