Hi Nick, a good read to see what’s in it. http://dachary.org/?p=1904 JC > On Aug 18, 2016, at 08:28, Nick Fisk <nick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just to answer myself in case anyone stumbles across this in the future. I was on the right track, but I think there are null > characters before the text payload which was tricking printf. > > In the end I managed to work it out and came up with this: > > char *temp = (char*)data+4; > > Which skips the 1st few bytes of the payload.....no idea what they are, but skipping 4 bytes takes you straight to the start of the > text part that you send with notify. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Fisk >> Sent: 17 August 2016 21:49 >> To: 'ceph-users' <ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Reading payload from rados_watchcb2_t callback >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm writing a small piece of code to call fsfreeze/unfreeze that can be invoked by a RADOS notify. I have the basic watch/notify >> functionality working but I need to be able to determine if the notify message is to freeze or unfreeze, or maybe something >> completely unrelated. >> >> I'm looking at the rados_watchcb2_t callback and can see that the data payload is returned as a void pointer. This is where it all > starts >> to go a little pear shaped for my basic C skills. I think I have to cast the pointer to a (char *) but I still can't seem to get > anything useful >> from it. >> >> I've been following some of the tests in the Ceph source and they seem to use some sort of typedef called a bufferlist, is this > what I >> need to try and look into? >> >> Does anyone have any pointers (excuse the pun) as to how I would read the text part of the payload from it? >> >> void watch_notify2_cb(void *arg, uint64_t notify_id, uint64_t cookie, uint64_t notifier_gid, void *data, size_t data_len) >> >> Many Thanks, >> Nick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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