EC_INIT(3)

✨ EC_INIT(3) — the libecoli glow-up starts here ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Libecoli Programmer's Manual 💖 this is the very first thing you gotta do if you wanna hang with libecoli, no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_init — Initialize ecoli library. like, wake it up, put its little shoes on, get it ready for the day 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <ecoli/init.h>

int ec_init(
    void
);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so listen. ec_init is the moment. It has to be called before any other function from libecoli. That's it. That's the whole vibe. No ec_init, no library. It's giving "you can't sit with us until you say hi first" 😭

Call it once at the start, and then you're free to go wild with the rest of the API. Periodt. 👑

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🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

• 0 — success, slay, we're so back 💖
• -1 — error, and errno is set. not iconic. go check errno to find out what went wrong 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• ec_exit(3)
• ec_init_register(3)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this page came from libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and it's literally EC_INIT(3) — go forth and initialize responsibly 💜