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NAME

       __pmAFregister,     __pmAFunregister,    __pmAFblock,    __pmAFunblock,
       __pmAFisempty  -  event  queue  services  for   periodic   asynchronous
       callbacks

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       #include <pcp/impl.h>

       int __pmAFregister(const struct timeval *delta, void *data, void (*func)(int, void *))

       int __pmAFunregister(int afid)

       void __pmAFblock(void)

       void __pmAFunblock(void)

       int __pmAFisempty(void)

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       The  routines  implement  an  event  queue  and callback framework that
       supports periodic  evaluation  of  a  series  of  events  with  varying
       frequencies for Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) applications.

       The   pmlogger(1)   application,   the   pmdatrace(1)   PMDA   and  the
       pmdahotproc(1) PMDA are the principal users of these services.

       An event is registered by calling __pmAFregister, and  on  success  the
       return  value  is  an  event  number  greater than zero.  The event has
       associated event data identified by the opaque pointer data.  The event
       will occur with frequency delta (the first instance will be delta after
       the current time when the event is registered), and each time the event
       occurs  the  function func will be called with the event number and the
       event data as arguments.

       Once the event occurs and the callback has  been  executed,  the  event
       will be rescheduled for delta into the future, except if all the fields
       of delta are zero, in which case the event will not be  rescheduled  (a
       ‘‘one trip’’ event).

       Internally, events are processed serially so there is no possibility of
       nested callbacks or re-entrant  callbacks  from  the  event  management
       routines.

       Given  an  event  number afid, __pmAFunregister will permanently remove
       the corresponding entry from the event queue.

       To control the event queue processing,  __pmAFblock  and  __pmAFunblock
       may  be  used  to  explicitly block and unblock the dispatch of events.
       This is most useful when the caller wishes to set up a number of events
       via __pmAFregister and complete the registration phase before the first
       event callback occurs.

       A call to __pmAFisempty returns 1 or 0 depending on whether  the  event
       queue is empty or not.

SEE ALSO

       PMAPI(3)

DIAGNOSTICS

       __pmAFregister and __pmAFunregister return values less than zero in the
       case of an error.  These values are PCP error codes, and may be used to
       produce error messages via pmErrStr(3).

       The  routines  support  the  standard  PCP debug tracing, and the value
       DBG_TRACE_AF (or -D af on the command line) will produce diagnostics on
       standard error that trace the enqueueing and execution of events.

CAVEATS

       These  routines  rely  on  setitimer(2)  and manipulate the handling of
       SIGALRM signals, and hence are  probably  ill-suited  for  applications
       that  require  direct  and  concurrent  access  to  these  services and
       resources.

       If the callback functions are slow, or delayed, it is possible that the
       event scheduling could fall behind and never catchup.  When this begins
       to happen, events are silently skipped and rescheduled at the  earliest
       possible  time on the future according to the fixed schedule defined by
       the time of the call to __pmAFregister  and  the  value  of  the  delta
       argument to __pmAFregister.