On Saturday 23 June 2001 12:45, Russell E Glaue wrote:
> Has anyone thought about adding SNMP support into MySQL?
> Is anyone out there currently working on something like this?
I've thought about it, but this is how far I went - just I thought during
lunch. I had not even shared it with other members of the team.
Adding SNMP support would definitely be a good idea. If you want to go ahead
and do it, we are very likely to accept the patch ( although the final word
rests with Monty on this). To increase the chances of your patch making it
quickly into the distribution:
* use BitKeeper ( this will make it trivial for us to add your patch - we can
just pull it from your repository, and this will also make it very easy for
you to always have your sources up to date)
* put as much of the new code it a new file as possible, and modify the
existing code as little as possible
* make sure the code is thread safe. If you are not sure if some external
library call is thread safe or not, add a mutex around it if there is a
chance that two threads may call it at the same time
* do not use exceptions
* do not use dynamic casts
* do not use calls to libstdc++ ( eg, iostreams and STL)
* use my_malloc()/my_free() to do memory allocation
* overall, avoid calls to libc - instead use their portability equivalents in
mysys/ - eg. instead of open()/close() call my_open()/my_close()
* if you need some "power tools" ( hash, dynamic array, dynamic string,
linked list, memory pool, etc), just ask - we will tell you where they are in
the source
* it has to at least not break anything when compiled on Windows ( the use of
my_* calls usually takes care of it)
* after you've written a bit of code, send it to us for review, and repeat
the procedure frequently
If the above is followed, we are very likely to take the patch the way it is.
If those rules are not followed, we may still take it, but then we have to
spend a lot of time fixing it up, which will cause a big delay.
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