pmdaDesc - get the description of a metric from a PMDA

#include<pcp/pmapi.h>#include<pcp/pmda.h>intpmdaDesc(pmIDpmid,pmDesc*desc,pmdaExt*pmda);cc...-lpcp_pmda-lpcp

       The PMDA  must  be  using  PMDA_INTERFACE_2  or  later,  as  specified  in  the  call  to  pmdaDSO(3)  or
       pmdaDaemon(3).

pmdaDesc  uses  the  standard  PMDA(3)  data  structures to return the pmDesc description in desc for the
       metric identified by pmid.

       If the pmid does not correspond to any metric supported by this PMDA, pmdaDesc returns PM_ERR_PMID.

pmdaDesc - get the description of a metric from a PMDA

PMAPI(3), PMDA(3), pmdaDaemon(3), pmdaDSO(3) and pmLookupDesc(3).

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