On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:49:37PM -0800, Colin McCabe wrote: > > const char *rados_conf_get(rados_t cluster, const char *option); > > I would prefer something like > int rados_conf_get(rados_t cluster, const char *option, char **buf, int len); > > We have a lot of configuration options that are ints and floats. You > can't really return a const char* pointer to an int-- you need to make > a temporary string somewhere, and that won't be const... The usual idiom is to have a low-level "raw" string getter, then build rados_conf_get_uint32, rados_conf_get_bool (e.g. understands "yes"/"true" and "no"/"false") etc on top of that. -- :(){ :|:&};: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html