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UPSCLI_READLINE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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NAME

upscli_readline, upscli_readline_timeout - read a single response from a UPS

SYNOPSIS

#include <upsclient.h>
#include <time.h> /* or <sys/time.h> on some platforms */

int upscli_readline(UPSCONN_t *ups, char *buf, size_t buflen);

int upscli_readline_timeout(UPSCONN_t *ups, char *buf, size_t buflen,
const time_t timeout);

DESCRIPTION

The upscli_readline() and upscli_readline_timeout() functions take the pointer ups to a UPSCONN_t state structure, receive a single line from the server, and copy up to buflen bytes of the response into the buffer buf .

Some parsing of the string occurs during reception. In particular, ERR messages from upsd (8) are detected and will cause this function to return -1.

The difference between the two functions is that upscli_readline_timeout() lets the caller decide the amount of time ( timeout seconds) after which it should give up and return, whereas upscli_readline() does not offer this freedom, and uses NUT default network timeout (5 seconds).

RETURN VALUE

The upscli_readline() and upscli_readline_timeout() functions return 0 on success, or -1 if an error occurs.