/*
- * Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
*
* Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
*/
/**
* The command line parser of the writer.
*
- * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options are
- * valid. On success, it should return a pointer to the writer-specific
- * configuration data determined by \a options. Note that this might be called
- * more than once with different values of \a options.
+ * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options
+ * are valid and return a pointer to the writer-specific configuration
+ * data determined by \a options. This function must either succeed or
+ * call exit(). Note that parse_config_or_die() might be called more
+ * than once with different values of \a options. \sa \ref
+ * free_config().
*/
- void *(*parse_config)(const char *options);
- void (*free_config)(void *conf);
+ void *(*parse_config_or_die)(const char *options);
/**
- * Open one instance of this writer.
+ * Dellocate all configuration resources.
*
- * This function should perform any work necessary to write the incoming
- * stream. To this aim, it may allocate its private data structure and store
- * a pointer to that structure via the given writer_node parameter.
+ * This should free whatever was allocated by \ref parse_config_or_die().
*/
- int (*open)(struct writer_node *);
+ void (*free_config)(void *config);
/**
* Prepare the fd sets for select.
*