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

PMASAMEINDOM(3)          Library Functions Manual         PMASAMEINDOM(3)

NAME         top

       pmaSameInDom - check if two observations of an instance domain are
       the same`

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       #include <pcp/libpcp.h>
       #include <pcp/archive.h>

       int pmaSameInDom(__pmLogInDom *old, __pmLogInDom *new);

       cc ... -lpcp_archive -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

       Checks two observations of the same instance domain are identical.
       The code assumes (a) old->indom == new->indom and (b) both the in‐
       stance domains are sorted in ascending internal instance identifi‐
       er sequence; see pmaSortInDom(3) to see how  to  make  the  second
       condition true.

       pmaSameInDom returns 1 if they are the same, returns 0 otherwise.

       The  instance  domains are considered different if any of the fol‐
       lowing hold:

       1.  old->numinst != new->numinst

       2.  For some i, old->instlist[i] != new->instlist[i]

       3.  For some i, the strings pointed to by old->namelist[i] and
           new->instlist[i] are not identical

       For Version 3 archives with "delta indom" support, it is more
       likely that pmaDeltaInDom(3) is more useful than pmaSameInDom, as
       the former combines the check for two observations of an instance
       domain being the same with the optional creation of the "delta in‐
       dom" format if that is the most efficient encoding.

SEE ALSO         top

       pmaDeltaInDom(3), PMAPI(3) and pmaSortInDom(3).

COLOPHON         top

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