pmiusecontext(3) - Linux man page

Name

pmiUseContext - change LOGIMPORT context

C Synopsis

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

int pmiUseContext(int context);

cc ... -lpcp_import -lpcp

Perl SYNOPSIS

use PCP::LogImport;

pmiUseContext($context);

Description

As part of the Performance Co-Pilot Log Import API (see logimport(3)), pmiUseContext may be used by applications wishing to generate more than one PCP archive concurrently.

The context argument is a value returned from a previous call to pmStart(3) and on successful return from pmiUseContext, the current context will have been changed to the one identified by context.

Diagnostics

pmiUseContext returns zero on success else a negative value that can be turned into an error message by calling pmierrstr(3).

See Also

logimport(3), pmierrstr(3) and pmistart(3).