cdb_init(3)

✨ cdb_init ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the cdb_init page, straight out of the Library Functions Manual 🎀 this one's all about opening up a constant database, and honestly? it's giving main character energy for like three whole lines of code 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cdb_init — open a constant database 🦋

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💖 SYNTAX 💖

#include <libowfat/cdb.h>

int cdb_init(struct cdb *c, int fd);

like. look at her. two args. no notes. 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what cdb_init does is it takes info about fd and places it into a struct cdb variable called c. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

important!! fd has to be a seekable file that was previously opened for reading. don't come at her with a pipe or a write-only fd, she will simply not deal 😭

and here's the cute part: on systems that support mmap, cdb_init will try to map the whole constant database into memory. lowkey iconic. the whole thing. in memory. ✨🌈

the inverse operation to cdb_init is cdb_free — that's your cleanup bestie, don't ghost her 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• cdb_free(3)
• cdb_read(3)
• cdb_find(3)
• cdbmake(1)

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and that's the whole page, no cap 💖 this was cdb_init(3) from the Library Functions Manual — go forth and open ur databases, bestie, ily 🎀🌸✨