[rrd-developers] Are multiple calls to rrd lib in the same execution supported ?

[Olivier Smeesters]

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a wrapper around librrd that would allow me to
execute several rrd create/update requests in one single process.
The goal is to be able to create/update several RRD files in a single
process (single fork/exec).

When trying to call rrd_create twice, only the first call is correctly
handled.
Strangely the parameters of the second call are interpreted in the wrong
order.

For example:
# ./build/obj/rrdctl create test.rrd --start 920804400
DS:speed:COUNTER:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:24 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:10 \
                       create test2.rrd --start 920804401
DS:speed:COUNTER:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:24 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:10
Calling "rrd_create with create test.rrd --start 920804400
DS:speed:COUNTER:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:24 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:10"
Returns 0 Success
Calling "rrd_create with create test2.rrd --start 920804401
DS:speed:COUNTER:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:24 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:10"
Returns 0 Success

# ls
920804401  test.rrd

Clearly the first file has been created properly but for the second, the
parameters are not handled as expected.

Looking further deep in the existing rrd_wrapper code, I found the
following two lines:
>		optind=0; /* reset gnu getopt */
>		opterr=0; /* no error messages */

I copied them in my code and found that now it works.
Was this an expected behaviour ?
Any thought about this ?

Thanks,


Olivier Smeesters

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