[rrd-users] Code change request: Longer DS names please!

[rik]

Hi,

I'm working on mapping in-kernel data structures which contain counters
onto DSs in a single RRD, depending on the area of the kernel. The
easiest way I can think of is to hash the static part of the structure,
and use the ASCII representation of that.

In order to accomplish this, and keep a modicum of sanity, I would
appreciate it if the length of a DS could be extended, to 33 bytes. This
would then hold the ASCII-printable MD5 checksum of arbitrary data.
This would provide a standard way for anyone to map to a DS name in an
RRD.

I have made a patch, which is at the end of this message. Please note I
haven't tested it, or verified that these are the only values that need
changing.

rik

--- rrd_format.h        Wed May 22 18:07:21 2002
+++ /tmp/rrd_format.h   Mon Jul 15 01:07:34 2002
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
 

 /* The magic number here is one less than DS_NAM_SIZE */
 #define DS_NAM_FMT    "%19[a-zA-Z0-9_-]"
-#define DS_NAM_SIZE   20
+#define DS_NAM_FMT    "%32[a-zA-Z0-9_-]"
+#define DS_NAM_SIZE   33
 
 #define DST_FMT    "%19[A-Z]"
 #define DST_SIZE   20

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