Querying Service Tasks

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Some service tasks return textual output. You can use the following items with isc_service_query() to request output of a service task. The tasks that generate output are those corresponding to the following Services API task items: isc_action_svc_backup, isc_action_svc_restore, isc_action_svc_repair, isc_action_svc_db_stats, isc_action_svc_get_ib_log, and isc_action_get_users.

Services API task query items

Task result items	Purpose	Return length	Return value
isc_info_svc_line	One line of output from a service task	2 bytes + string	Line of text
isc_info_svc_to_eof	Multiple lines of output from a service task, up to the size of the result buffer	2 bytes + string	Buffer of text
isc_info_svc_running	Returns TRUE if a service task is already running on the server; used for a non-blocking check for a task in progress	4 bytes	Unsigned long; 1 or 0
isc_info_svc_get_users	See: Additional Data for Security Information	q.v.	q.v.
isc_info_svc_limbo_trans	Limbo transaction information for unresolved distributed transactions	See below	See below

Topics

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