PX_DELETE(3)

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💖 PX_DELETE(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual, section 3, page PX_DELETE(3) — yes that's the same name as the header, it's giving main character energy, we love a self-referential icon 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

PX_delete — deletes an instance of a Paradox file 🗑️🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <paradox.h>

void PX_delete(pxdoc_t *pxdoc)

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. no return value, no drama, just vibes and a pointer 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — PX_delete deletes a Paradox file but it does not close it. read that again. it does not close it. 😤

and when we say "deleting", we mean it frees all allocated memory — every last byte it was holding onto, gone, released, returned to the void 🫶 — but it does not close the file descriptor. nope. that file descriptor is still out there living its best life, untouched, unbothered, thriving ✨

so like, memory: freed. file descriptor: not our problem, not our business, we do not touch it, periodt 👑

fr fr, don't expect this function to clean up your file descriptor for you — it literally says right there it doesn't, and we respect the honesty 😭

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, assembled 🌈:

(if you're wondering where PX_close(3) fits in — bestie, that's the one that actually closes things. just saying. 👀)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx — absolute legend, icon, ate and left no crumbs 👑💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was PX_DELETE(3) from the Library Functions Manual, section 3 — same name at the top, same name at the bottom, a perfectly symmetrical little butterfly 🦋✨ tysm for reading, go free your memory, mwah 💖🎀

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