__pmparsetime(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | C SYNOPSIS | CAVEAT | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PMPARSETIME(3)          Library Functions Manual          PMPARSETIME(3)

NAME         top

       __pmParseTime, __pmParseHighResTime - parse time point
       specification

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include "pmapi.h"
       #include "libpcp.h"

       int __pmParseTime(const char *string, struct timeval *logStart,
               struct timeval *logEnd, struct timeval *rslt,
               char **errMsg);
       int __pmParseHighResTime(const char *string, struct timespec
               *logStart, struct timespec *logEnd,
               struct timespec *rslt, char **errMsg);

       cc ... -lpcp

CAVEAT         top

       This documentation is intended for internal Performance Co-Pilot
       (PCP) developer use.

       These interfaces are not part of the PCP APIs that are guaranteed
       to remain fixed across releases, and they may not work, or may
       provide different semantics at some point in the future.

DESCRIPTION         top

       __pmParseTime and __PmParseHighResTime are designed to
       encapsulate the interpretation of a time point specification in
       command line switches for use by the PCP client tools.

       These functions expects to be called with the time point
       specification as string.  If the tool is running against PCP
       archive(s), you also need to supply the start time of the first
       (only) archive as logStart, and the end of the last (only)
       archive as logEnd.  See pmGetArchiveLabel(3) and
       pmGetArchiveEnd(3) for how to obtain values for these parameters.
       If the tool is running against a live feed of performance data,
       logStart should be the current time (but could be aligned on the
       next second for example), while logEnd should have its tv_sec
       component set to PM_MAX_TIME_T.

       The rslt structure must be allocated before either calling
       __pmParseTime or __pmParseHighResTime.

       You also need to set the current PCP reporting time zone to
       correctly reflect the -z and -Z command line parameters before
       calling __pmParseTime or __pmParseHighResTime.  See pmUseZone(3)
       and friends for information on how this is done.

       If the conversion is successful, both __pmParseTime and
       __pmParseHighResTime return 0, and fill in rslt with the time
       value defined by the input parameters.  If the argument strings
       could not be parsed, it returns -1 and a dynamically allocated
       error message string in errMsg.  Be sure to free(3) this error
       message string.

SEE ALSO         top

       PMAPI(3), pmGetArchiveEnd(3), pmGetArchiveLabel(3),
       pmNewContextZone(3), pmNewZone(3), pmParseInterval(3),
       pmParseTimeWindow(3), pmUseZone(3), __pmConvertTime(3) and
       __pmParseCtime(3).

COLOPHON         top

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