[collectd] Read plugin accessing data from another plugin

[Tomas]

Hi,

I am wondering if it is possible for a read plugin to access last data 
from another read plugin? This may sound strange but the problem is 
quite real.

I am about to write read plugin which retrieves absolute barometric 
pressure from a sensor. However at the end I need to log mean sea level 
pressure - this can be calculated using absolute pressure, altitude (as 
this would be constant it would be a part of the configuration) and 
temperature (I know, there are simplified approximations without 
considering temperature but I want the more accurate formula). And the 
temperature is read by another plugin. Finally I do not want to store 
absolute pressure and be forced compute mean pressure every time I 
access the data.

Of course I could hack the temperature reading module (onewire) to 
expose the data somewhere outside the collectd framework but this would 
be ugly. But is there a better way to achieve this?
Or is it possible to somehow misuse for example the notification framework?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers,
Tomas