Re: Local context vs dynamic namespace

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:23 +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> ...
> This all means you have to parse pmcd.conf in libpcp, which is a bit
> more involved perhaps than walking a directory and using the existing
> (-K) parser code ... but, you choose, I'd be happy with either way.

The parsing is pretty simple ... I opted to not do a heap of error
checking because (a) pmcd is already doing that at the time pmcd.conf is
updated and reread, and (b) the parsing happens during the first call to
pmNewContext(PM_CONTEXT_LOCAL, NULL) or pmLocalPMDA(...) or
pmSpecLocalPMDA() and this is a bad place to be trying to return
"helpful" parser error messages.

I can revisit this if someone sees a problem with the approach I've
taken.