[Nagiosplug-devel] Please can I have GIT access

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:38:22PM +0100, Ton Voon wrote:

> >What I would like is to store/retrieve a blob (serialised string)  
> >that I can
> >then unserialise to my taste. It might be nice to provide  
> >serialisation routines,
> >this might be hard to generalise.
> 
> I can picture how this works in perl, but I don't really know about C.  
> (Can I get any arbitrary data structure back?)

Not unless you are told something about it -- ie you can't (as you can in Perl)
ask to see what the struct members are. All that you would prob have is it's
address, not even its size. If you had a generic routine you would need to
(for instance) give it an array to describe each member of the struct.
The array itself would be an array of [a different] struct that contained, for
each member: its offset, its type and perhaps a name. In fact it isn't hard to do.

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