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NAME top

   **pmUseContext** - change current PMAPI context

C SYNOPSIS top

   **#include <pcp/pmapi.h>**

   **int pmUseContext(int** _handle_**);**

   **cc ... -lpcp**

DESCRIPTION top

   An application using the Performance Metrics Application
   Programming Interface (PMAPI) may manipulate several concurrent
   contexts, each associated with a source of performance metrics,
   e.g. [pmcd(1)](../man1/pmcd.1.html) on some host, or an archive of performance metrics as
   created by [pmlogger(1)](../man1/pmlogger.1.html).

   Calling **pmUseContext** causes the current PMAPI context to be set to
   the context identified by _handle_.  The value of _handle_ must be one
   returned from an earlier call to [pmNewContext(3)](../man3/pmNewContext.3.html) or
   [pmDupContext(3)](../man3/pmDupContext.3.html).

   Below the PMAPI, all contexts used by an application are saved in
   their most recently modified state, so **pmUseContext** restores the
   context to the state it was in the last time the context was used,
   not the state of the context when it was established.

DIAGNOSTICS top

   **PM_ERR_NOCONTEXT**

          _handle_ does not identify a valid PMAPI context

SEE ALSO top

   [PMAPI(3)](../man3/PMAPI.3.html), [pmDestroyContext(3)](../man3/pmDestroyContext.3.html), [pmDupContext(3)](../man3/pmDupContext.3.html), [pmNewContext(3)](../man3/pmNewContext.3.html)
   and [pmWhichContext(3)](../man3/pmWhichContext.3.html).

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