From: Florian Forster <octo@leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:35 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: network plugin: Documented (in the source) that the network plugin cannot flush indiv... 
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.5.0~144
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28a77bdf8955889d3a57cbb8e904ba138aef41aa;p=collectd.git

network plugin: Documented (in the source) that the network plugin cannot flush individual values.
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diff --git a/src/network.c b/src/network.c
index cf01b719..6be7a098 100644
--- a/src/network.c
+++ b/src/network.c
@@ -1757,8 +1757,14 @@ static int network_init (void)
 	return (0);
 } /* int network_init */
 
-/* TODO: Implement flushing of single items. */
-static int network_flush (int timeout, const char *itentifier)
+/* 
+ * The flush option of the network plugin cannot flush individual identifiers.
+ * All the values are added to a buffer and sent when the buffer is full, the
+ * requested value may or may not be in there, it's not worth finding out. We
+ * just send the buffer if `flush'  is called - if the requested value was in
+ * there, good. If not, well, then there is nothing to flush.. -octo
+ */
+static int network_flush (int timeout, const char *identifier)
 {
 	pthread_mutex_lock (&send_buffer_lock);