src/plugin.c: Move the perl and python "global" magic to plugin_load().

[collectd.git] / src / plugin.c

diff --git a/src/plugin.c b/src/plugin.c
index 386be32..894b0e5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/plugin.c
+++ b/src/plugin.c
@@ -901,6 +901,21 @@ int plugin_load (char const *plugin_name, uint32_t flags)
        dir = plugin_get_dir ();
        ret = 1;
 
+       /*
+        * XXX: Magic at work:
+        *
+        * Some of the language bindings, for example the Python and Perl
+        * plugins, need to be able to export symbols to the scripts they run.
+        * For this to happen, the "Globals" flag needs to be set.
+        * Unfortunately, this technical detail is hard to explain to the
+        * average user and she shouldn't have to worry about this, ideally.
+        * So in order to save everyone's sanity use a different default for a
+        * handful of special plugins. --octo
+        */
+       if ((strcasecmp ("perl", plugin_name) == 0)
+                       || (strcasecmp ("python", plugin_name) == 0))
+               flags |= PLUGIN_FLAGS_GLOBAL;
+
        /* `cpu' should not match `cpufreq'. To solve this we add `.so' to the
         * type when matching the filename */
        status = ssnprintf (typename, sizeof (typename), "%s.so", plugin_name);