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Re: [pcp] Help with Python API

To: Rohan Arora <rarora2012@xxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [pcp] Help with Python API
From: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 07:42:01 +1000
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On 07/07/15 03:27, Rohan Arora wrote:
Also, I see that in the pmSetMode() documentation, to read an archive in
reverse order you use pmSetMode(PM_MODE_BACK, timeval, delta). The
example gave the value 0x7fffffff for timeval.tv_sec, but I was
wondering, is that guaranteed to read from the end of the archive? In my
case, I always just want to read the last x entries in the log.

For all practical purposes (at least for a few more years, till around 2038) this will work.

Alternatively, use
        pmGetArchiveEnd(&mytime)

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