Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/pr/387'

[collectd.git] / src / types_list.c

diff --git a/src/types_list.c b/src/types_list.c
index 7600c346ecc1e8c901460a029c2ead4c167e5576..10cb4f28b81e674c7af566b9bf288851b84d9442 100644 (file)
--- a/src/types_list.c
+++ b/src/types_list.c
@@ -68,9 +68,13 @@ static int parse_ds (data_source_t *dsrc, char *buf, size_t buf_len)
     dsrc->type = DS_TYPE_GAUGE;
   else if (strcasecmp (fields[1], "COUNTER") == 0)
     dsrc->type = DS_TYPE_COUNTER;
+  else if (strcasecmp (fields[1], "DERIVE") == 0)
+    dsrc->type = DS_TYPE_DERIVE;
+  else if (strcasecmp (fields[1], "ABSOLUTE") == 0)
+    dsrc->type = DS_TYPE_ABSOLUTE;
   else
   {
-    ERROR ("(fields[1] = %s) != (GAUGE || COUNTER)", fields[1]);
+    ERROR ("(fields[1] = %s) != (GAUGE || COUNTER || DERIVE || ABSOLUTE)", fields[1]);
     return (-1);
   }
 
@@ -98,6 +102,10 @@ static void parse_line (char *buf)
   if (fields_num < 2)
     return;
 
+  /* Ignore lines which begin with a hash sign. */
+  if (fields[0][0] == '#')
+    return;
+
   ds = (data_set_t *) malloc (sizeof (data_set_t));
   if (ds == NULL)
     return;
@@ -172,7 +180,9 @@ int read_types_list (const char *file)
   if (fh == NULL)
   {
     char errbuf[1024];
-    ERROR ("open (%s) failed: %s", 
+    fprintf (stderr, "Failed to open types database `%s': %s.\n",
+       file, sstrerror (errno, errbuf, sizeof (errbuf)));
+    ERROR ("Failed to open types database `%s': %s",
        file, sstrerror (errno, errbuf, sizeof (errbuf)));
     return (-1);
   }