DTDTSBUFFERTODATATYPE(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

DtDtsBufferToDataType — get the data type for a byte stream. It's a library call, bestie, and honestly it's giving main character energy for your bytes 💖.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include &<Dt/Dts.h>
char *DtDtsBufferToDataType(
const void *buffer,
const int size,
const char *opt_name);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so DtDtsBufferToDataType returns the data type name for a given byte stream. That's literally the whole quest, and it ate 🔥.

• buffer — a pointer to the buffer of the data to be typed. Hand over the bytes, bestie 🫶.
• size — the size of the buffer in bytes. Yes, actual byte count, no cap.
• opt_name — can be used to specify a name to be associated with the buffer. If opt_name is not NULL, it's used as a pseudo file name in typing; otherwise, certain attributes may be returned as NULL because the filename components could not be determined. The way that detail matters 💅.

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

Upon successful completion, DtDtsBufferToDataType returns a pointer to a data type name string, or NULL if no value could be determined. Slay when it returns a string; when it's NULL, it's just not giving a value today 😭.

💜 APPLICATION USAGE 💜

The application should use the DtDtsFreeDataType(3) function to release the memory for the returned value. Don't forget, bestie — free the data type memory, it's the iconic cleanup move 🎀.

DtDtsBufferToDataType assumes that the buffer is readable and writable by the user, group and other file classes and selects a type accordingly.

Heads up: an application requiring a type based on read-only permissions should use DtDtsDataToDataType. That's the read-only lane, iykyk 🌈.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Dt/Dts.h
• DtDtsDataToDataType(3)
• DtDtsLoadDataTypes(3)
• DtDtsFreeDataType(3)

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