[rrd-users] C API?

[Travis Spencer]

On 2/6/07, Mark Easton <mark.easton at azurebell.co.nz> wrote:
> Gosh the C api is a closely guarded secret it seems.

I wouldn't say that.  Almost everything that you need to know is at
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/index.en.html.  The only real
secrets have been discussed on this and the developer list before.
This is what I've picked up:

1. Free any double pointers you pass into RRD upon success
2. Lock other threads out before calling any of RRD's function if
you're running in a multithreaded environment and calling a
non-reentrant version of an RRD function
3. Clear optint, opterr, and call rrd_clear_error before invoking an
RRD function
4. All RRD functions return a non-zero value on failure and zero upon success.
5. You can call rrd_test_error to find out more when something goes wrong.
6 Ask here if you get stuck ;-)

Did I miss any?

See https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-developers/2006-July/001729.html
for a few more details.  Also, I would suggest that you subscribe to
the lists with a gmail account or something, so you can search them
easily.  (That's what I do anyway.)

Happy hacking, Mark.

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Regards,

Travis Spencer