dbh_close(3)

💖 dbh_close — bestie, we're closing the table 💖

okay so this is the DBHashTables Programmers' Manual page for dbh_close(3), and honestly? it's giving "short and sweet and does exactly what it says." two little functions, one job each, no drama. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

dbh_close, dbh_destroy — close or remove an open DBHashTable 🦋

like. one of them closes it, one of them closes it and deletes it off the face of the disk. yin and yang fr fr. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <dbh.h>

int dbh_close (DBHashTable *dbh);
int dbh_destroy (DBHashTable *dbh);

both of them take a DBHashTable *dbh and both hand you back an int. that's the whole vibe check. ✨

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so dbh_close will close the DBHashTable file. and bestie, "close" here is doing real work — it's flushing the io buffer. so like, all that stuff you wrote? it's actually hitting the disk now. no cap. 💾✨

then we got dbh_destroy, and she's the unhinged one (affectionate). dbh_destroy will close an open DBHashTable and erase the file from disk. like, gone gone. 😭

it's a convenience function that does a close and rm. that's literally the description, i'm not even embellishing. she's the "close the tab and delete the draft" of Unix functions. 🫶

⚠️ bestie listen. dbh_destroy is not playing around — the file is erased from disk. if you wanted it back you should've called dbh_close. i'm just saying. 💀

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

• 0 — if error 😭
• 1 — otherwise 👑

yes it's flipped from what your brain expects. zero means it went bad. one means we ate. that's the API, i don't make the rules. 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dbh (0)
• dbh_create (3)
• dbh_open (3)
• dbh_open_ro (3)

go read these if you wanna know how the table got opened in the first place, iykyk 💅

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👑 Author 👑

Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott@xfce.org> — the icon, the moment, the main character. 🌟

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and that's the page!! this came out of the DBH manual, version DBH, filed under dbh_close(3), and it was written by the DBH crew. periodt. 🎀💖✨