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NAME

       pmdaOpenHelp, pmdaGetHelp, pmdaGetInDomHelp, pmdaCloseHelp, - help text
       support for a PMDA

C SYNOPSIS

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

       int pmdaOpenHelp(char *fname);
       char *pmdaGetHelp(int handle, pmID pmid, int type);
       char *pmdaGetInDomHelp(int handle, pmInDom indom, int type);
       void pmdaCloseHelp(int handle);

       cc ... -lpcp_pmda -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       As part of  the  Performance  Metrics  Domain  Agent  (PMDA)  API  (see
       PMDA(3)), this group of routines is used to implement the processing of
       a PMDA’s metric help information.

       These routines are really intended for internal  use,  and  should  not
       need to be called directly from any PMDA code.

       Briefly, the base name of the help text file (as created by newhelp(1))
       is passed in via a -h command line option for a daemon PMDA  or  as  an
       argument  to  pmdaDaemon(3) or pmdaDSO(3).  Then pmdaOpenHelp is called
       from pmdaInit(3) and returns a handle that is used in subsequent  calls
       to  identify a particular help text collection (each PMDA typically has
       only one such collection).

       Requests  for  help  text  are  passed  to  pmdaText(3)   which   calls
       pmdaGetHelp or pmdaGetInDomHelp as required.

       Other than error cases in pmdaOpenHelp, pmdaCloseHelp is not called.

DIAGNOSTICS

       pmdaOpenHelp  returns  a  negative  value  for  failure,  suitable  for
       decoding with pmErrStr(3).   pmdaGetHelp  and  pmdaGetInDomHelp  return
       NULL if the corresponding help text does not exist.

CAVEAT

       The  PMDA  must  be using PMDA_PROTOCOL_2 or later, as specified in the
       call to pmdaDSO(3) or pmdaDaemon(3).

SEE ALSO

       newhelp(1), PMAPI(3), PMDA(3), pmdaDaemon(3), pmdaDSO(3),  pmdaInit(3),
       pmdaText(3) and pmErrStr(3).