On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Daniel Nichter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a working plugin which I'll push to Launchpad soon. I have a question > about using the update_func_arg of class sys_var_std_string to create a > dynamic variable. My plugin's class has a file descriptor to the open query > log file, but the update function can't access it because it doesn't receive > a pointer to the plugin's class. I can make the file descriptor var global > in my plugin's namespace, but I'd like to keep everything inside the class. > Is this possible? I tried hacking and casting and passing a pointer to a > non-static member function of the class, but I couldn't get that to work. My > update function is currently: > > bool update_file(Session *, set_var *var) > { > const char *new_file= var->value->str_value.ptr(); > > if (fd) > close(fd); > fd= open_log_file(new_file); > if (fd < 0) > return false; // error > > sysvar_file= new_file; > > return false; // success > }
Hi, What does return false; mean? Error or success? ;) > > fd and sysvar_file are global in the plugin's namespace. Does that code look > correct? I don't know, but you might want to prefix global vars with g_. Olaf _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
