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PMSERVER...AGERREADY(3) Library Functions ManualPMSERVER...AGERREADY(3)__pmServerNotifyServiceManagerReady,__pmServerNotifyServiceManagerStopping- notify service start and stop
#include "pmapi.h"#include "libpcp.h"int __pmServerNotifyServiceManagerReady(pid_tmainpid);int __pmServerNotifyServiceManagerStopping(pid_tmainpid);cc ... -lpcp
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.
Within the libraries and applications of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) these routines provide a convenient and portable interface to service manager APIs, such assd_notify(3). PCP service daemons should call__pmServerNotifyServiceManager‐Readyimmediately prior to entering their main loop, regardless of whether or not they have forked or daemonised. This will notify the service manager (if any, depending on the platform) that the daemon service has started, and that the main process to be tracked ismainpid. Similarly when shutting down, service daemons should call__pm‐ServerNotifyServiceManagerStoppingto notify the service manager (if any) that the tracked process of the service has returned from it's main loop and is about to shut down. These routines are intended to be portable and thus no conditional code should be needed for any service daemon on any platform.
These functions will print diagnostics to thestderrstream ifpmDebugOptions.servicesis set.
If successful,__pmServerNotifyServiceManagerReadyreturns a posi‐ tive integer that depends on the platform service manager. In the case ofsystemd(1), the return code is fromsd_notify(3). If the platform supportssystemd(1) but theNOTIFY_SOCKETenvironment variable is not set (as may be the case if the server program is started manually rather than bysystemd(1)), the return code will bePM_ERR_GENERICwhich will normally be ignored but a diagnostic will be printed ifpmDebugOptions.servicesis set. On platforms that have no service manager, the return code will bePM_ERR_NYI. For backward compatibility on these platforms, the return code should be ignored.
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