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-/**
- * collectd - src/common.h
- * Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Florian octo Forster
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
- * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
- * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
- * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
- * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
- * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
- * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
- * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- * Authors:
- * Florian octo Forster <octo at collectd.org>
- * Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
-**/
-
-#ifndef COMMON_H
-#define COMMON_H
-
-#include "collectd.h"
-#include "plugin.h"
-
-#if HAVE_PWD_H
-# include <pwd.h>
-#endif
-
-#define sfree(ptr) \
- do { \
- if((ptr) != NULL) { \
- free(ptr); \
- } \
- (ptr) = NULL; \
- } while (0)
-
-#define STATIC_ARRAY_SIZE(a) (sizeof (a) / sizeof (*(a)))
-
-#define IS_TRUE(s) ((strcasecmp ("true", (s)) == 0) \
- || (strcasecmp ("yes", (s)) == 0) \
- || (strcasecmp ("on", (s)) == 0))
-#define IS_FALSE(s) ((strcasecmp ("false", (s)) == 0) \
- || (strcasecmp ("no", (s)) == 0) \
- || (strcasecmp ("off", (s)) == 0))
-
-struct rate_to_value_state_s
-{
- value_t last_value;
- cdtime_t last_time;
- gauge_t residual;
-};
-typedef struct rate_to_value_state_s rate_to_value_state_t;
-
-struct value_to_rate_state_s
-{
- value_t last_value;
- cdtime_t last_time;
-};
-typedef struct value_to_rate_state_s value_to_rate_state_t;
-
-char *sstrncpy (char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);
-
-__attribute__ ((format(printf,3,4)))
-int ssnprintf (char *dest, size_t n, const char *format, ...);
-
-__attribute__ ((format(printf,1,2)))
-char *ssnprintf_alloc (char const *format, ...);
-
-char *sstrdup(const char *s);
-void *smalloc(size_t size);
-char *sstrerror (int errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * sread
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Reads exactly `n' bytes or fails. Syntax and other behavior is analogous
- * to `read(2)'. If EOF is received the file descriptor is closed and an
- * error is returned.
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `fd' File descriptor to write to.
- * `buf' Buffer that is to be written.
- * `count' Number of bytes in the buffer.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Zero upon success or non-zero if an error occurred. `errno' is set in this
- * case.
- */
-ssize_t sread (int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * swrite
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Writes exactly `n' bytes or fails. Syntax and other behavior is analogous
- * to `write(2)'.
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `fd' File descriptor to write to.
- * `buf' Buffer that is to be written.
- * `count' Number of bytes in the buffer.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Zero upon success or non-zero if an error occurred. `errno' is set in this
- * case.
- */
-ssize_t swrite (int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * strsplit
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Splits a string into parts and stores pointers to the parts in `fields'.
- * The characters split at are: " ", "\t", "\r", and "\n".
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `string' String to split. This string will be modified. `fields' will
- * contain pointers to parts of this string, so free'ing it
- * will destroy `fields' as well.
- * `fields' Array of strings where pointers to the parts will be stored.
- * `size' Number of elements in the array. No more than `size'
- * pointers will be stored in `fields'.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Returns the number of parts stored in `fields'.
- */
-int strsplit (char *string, char **fields, size_t size);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * strjoin
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Joins together several parts of a string using `sep' as a separator. This
- * is equivalent to the Perl built-in `join'.
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `dst' Buffer where the result is stored.
- * `dst_len' Length of the destination buffer. No more than this many
- * bytes will be written to the memory pointed to by `dst',
- * including the trailing null-byte.
- * `fields' Array of strings to be joined.
- * `fields_num' Number of elements in the `fields' array.
- * `sep' String to be inserted between any two elements of `fields'.
- * This string is neither prepended nor appended to the result.
- * Instead of passing "" (empty string) one can pass NULL.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Returns the number of characters in `dst', NOT including the trailing
- * null-byte. If an error occurred (empty array or `dst' too small) a value
- * smaller than zero will be returned.
- */
-int strjoin (char *dst, size_t dst_len, char **fields, size_t fields_num, const char *sep);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * escape_slashes
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Removes slashes ("/") from "buffer". If buffer contains a single slash,
- * the result will be "root". Leading slashes are removed. All other slashes
- * are replaced with underscores ("_").
- * This function is used by plugin_dispatch_values() to escape all parts of
- * the identifier.
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `buffer' String to be escaped.
- * `buffer_size' Size of the buffer. No more then this many bytes will be
- * written to `buffer', including the trailing null-byte.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Returns zero upon success and a value smaller than zero upon failure.
- */
-int escape_slashes (char *buffer, size_t buffer_size);
-
-/**
- * NAME
- * escape_string
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * escape_string quotes and escapes a string to be usable with collectd's
- * plain text protocol. "simple" strings are left as they are, for example if
- * buffer is 'simple' before the call, it will remain 'simple'. However, if
- * buffer contains 'more "complex"' before the call, the returned buffer will
- * contain '"more \"complex\""'.
- *
- * If the buffer is too small to contain the escaped string, the string will
- * be truncated. However, leading and trailing double quotes, as well as an
- * ending null byte are guaranteed.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Returns zero on success, even if the string was truncated. Non-zero on
- * failure.
- */
-int escape_string (char *buffer, size_t buffer_size);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * replace_special
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Replaces any special characters (anything that's not alpha-numeric or a
- * dash) with an underscore.
- *
- * E.g. "foo$bar&" would become "foo_bar_".
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `buffer' String to be handled.
- * `buffer_size' Length of the string. The function returns after
- * encountering a null-byte or reading this many bytes.
- */
-void replace_special (char *buffer, size_t buffer_size);
-
-int strsubstitute (char *str, char c_from, char c_to);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * strunescape
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Replaces any escaped characters in a string with the appropriate special
- * characters. The following escaped characters are recognized:
- *
- * \t -> <tab>
- * \n -> <newline>
- * \r -> <carriage return>
- *
- * For all other escacped characters only the backslash will be removed.
- *
- * PARAMETERS
- * `buf' String to be unescaped.
- * `buf_len' Length of the string, including the terminating null-byte.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Returns zero upon success, a value less than zero else.
- */
-int strunescape (char *buf, size_t buf_len);
-
-/**
- * Removed trailing newline characters (CR and LF) from buffer, which must be
- * null terminated. Returns the length of the resulting string.
- */
-__attribute__((nonnull (1)))
-size_t strstripnewline (char *buffer);
-
-/*
- * NAME
- * timeval_cmp
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Compare the two time values `tv0' and `tv1' and store the absolut value
- * of the difference in the time value pointed to by `delta' if it does not
- * equal NULL.
- *
- * RETURN VALUE
- * Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if `tv0' is
- * less than, equal to, or greater than `tv1' respectively.
- */
-int timeval_cmp (struct timeval tv0, struct timeval tv1, struct timeval *delta);
-
-/* make sure tv_usec stores less than a second */
-#define NORMALIZE_TIMEVAL(tv) \
- do { \
- (tv).tv_sec += (tv).tv_usec / 1000000; \
- (tv).tv_usec = (tv).tv_usec % 1000000; \
- } while (0)
-
-/* make sure tv_sec stores less than a second */
-#define NORMALIZE_TIMESPEC(tv) \
- do { \
- (tv).tv_sec += (tv).tv_nsec / 1000000000; \
- (tv).tv_nsec = (tv).tv_nsec % 1000000000; \
- } while (0)
-
-int check_create_dir (const char *file_orig);
-
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBKSTAT
-int get_kstat (kstat_t **ksp_ptr, char *module, int instance, char *name);
-long long get_kstat_value (kstat_t *ksp, char *name);
-#endif
-
-#ifndef HAVE_HTONLL
-unsigned long long ntohll (unsigned long long n);
-unsigned long long htonll (unsigned long long n);
-#endif
-
-#if FP_LAYOUT_NEED_NOTHING
-# define ntohd(d) (d)
-# define htond(d) (d)
-#elif FP_LAYOUT_NEED_ENDIANFLIP || FP_LAYOUT_NEED_INTSWAP
-double ntohd (double d);
-double htond (double d);
-#else
-# error "Don't know how to convert between host and network representation of doubles."
-#endif
-
-int format_name (char *ret, int ret_len,
- const char *hostname,
- const char *plugin, const char *plugin_instance,
- const char *type, const char *type_instance);
-#define FORMAT_VL(ret, ret_len, vl) \
- format_name (ret, ret_len, (vl)->host, (vl)->plugin, (vl)->plugin_instance, \
- (vl)->type, (vl)->type_instance)
-int format_values (char *ret, size_t ret_len,
- const data_set_t *ds, const value_list_t *vl,
- _Bool store_rates);
-
-int parse_identifier (char *str, char **ret_host,
- char **ret_plugin, char **ret_plugin_instance,
- char **ret_type, char **ret_type_instance);
-int parse_identifier_vl (const char *str, value_list_t *vl);
-int parse_value (const char *value, value_t *ret_value, int ds_type);
-int parse_values (char *buffer, value_list_t *vl, const data_set_t *ds);
-
-#if !HAVE_GETPWNAM_R
-int getpwnam_r (const char *name, struct passwd *pwbuf, char *buf,
- size_t buflen, struct passwd **pwbufp);
-#endif
-
-int notification_init (notification_t *n, int severity, const char *message,
- const char *host,
- const char *plugin, const char *plugin_instance,
- const char *type, const char *type_instance);
-#define NOTIFICATION_INIT_VL(n, vl) \
- notification_init (n, NOTIF_FAILURE, NULL, \
- (vl)->host, (vl)->plugin, (vl)->plugin_instance, \
- (vl)->type, (vl)->type_instance)
-
-typedef int (*dirwalk_callback_f)(const char *dirname, const char *filename,
- void *user_data);
-int walk_directory (const char *dir, dirwalk_callback_f callback,
- void *user_data, int hidden);
-/* Returns the number of bytes read or negative on error. */
-ssize_t read_file_contents (char const *filename, char *buf, size_t bufsize);
-
-counter_t counter_diff (counter_t old_value, counter_t new_value);
-
-/* Convert a rate back to a value_t. When converting to a derive_t, counter_t
- * or absoltue_t, take fractional residuals into account. This is important
- * when scaling counters, for example.
- * Returns zero on success. Returns EAGAIN when called for the first time; in
- * this case the value_t is invalid and the next call should succeed. Other
- * return values indicate an error. */
-int rate_to_value (value_t *ret_value, gauge_t rate,
- rate_to_value_state_t *state, int ds_type, cdtime_t t);
-
-int value_to_rate (value_t *ret_rate, derive_t value,
- value_to_rate_state_t *state, int ds_type, cdtime_t t);
-
-/* Converts a service name (a string) to a port number
- * (in the range [1-65535]). Returns less than zero on error. */
-int service_name_to_port_number (const char *service_name);
-
-/** Parse a string to a derive_t value. Returns zero on success or non-zero on
- * failure. If failure is returned, ret_value is not touched. */
-int strtoderive (const char *string, derive_t *ret_value);
-
-/** Parse a string to a gauge_t value. Returns zero on success or non-zero on
- * failure. If failure is returned, ret_value is not touched. */
-int strtogauge (const char *string, gauge_t *ret_value);
-
-int strarray_add (char ***ret_array, size_t *ret_array_len, char const *str);
-void strarray_free (char **array, size_t array_len);
-
-#endif /* COMMON_H */