accessing status variables

[Matthew Boehm]

Hello all,
 From within a plug-in, what's the best/correct way to access all the 
status variables that are visible from 'SHOW GLOBAL STATUS'?

I've included the mysql_priv.h header file in my plugin which gives me 
access to "global_status_var" and "status_vars[]". Is it safe for me to 
read their values at any point?

I was planning on writing a simple for-loop to iterate through 
status_vars[]. Or is there something else that already does this and 
gives the values of each element?

Thanks,
Matthew