cnet's Application Programming Interface

NAME

CNET_timer_data - recover the data value associated with a running timer

SYNOPSIS

#include <cnet.h> CnetTimerID CNET_timer_data(CnetTimerID tid, CnetData *data);

DESCRIPTION

CNET_timer_data() enables recovery of the CnetData() value associated with the timer identified by tid. The data value was originally provided with a call to CNET_start_timer().

A typical use of CNET_timer_data() is to recover the address of some dynamically allocated memory (allocated via malloc()) just before calling CNET_stop_timer(). If CNET_timer_data() is not used to recover dynamically allocated memory in this manner, protocols will have a memory leak.

On success, the saved CnetData value is copied to the address indicated by data.

RETURN VALUE

The value 0 is returned on success. On failure, the value -1 is returned, and the global variable cnet_errno is set to one of the following values to describe the error:

ER_BADARG

The value of data is an invalid pointer.

ER_BADTIMERID

The value of tid does not represent a currently executing timer (the timer may have already expired).

SEE ALSO

CNET_start_timer, and CNET_stop_timer.