EXPLAIN_FPATHCONF_OR_DIE(3)

✨ explain_fpathconf_or_die(3) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual and it's literally about <pink>explain_fpathconf_or_die</pink> — the function that goes and gets your file configuration and then tells you all about it if stuff goes wrong 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

explain_fpathconf_or_die</purgle> — get file configuration and report errors

no wait, let me say that again properly: it's get file configuration and report errors. that's the whole job. she's an icon, she's a legend, and she's the moment 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <libexplain/fpathconf.h>
long explain_fpathconf_or_die(int fildes, int name);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the <hotpink>explain_fpathconf_or_die</hotpink> function is the one you call when you want to hit up the fpathconf(3) system call 🫶

and here's the vibe: if it fails, an explanation gets printed to stderr — and that explanation comes straight from explain_fpathconf(3), no cap — and then the process terminates by calling exit(EXIT_FAILURE). like, it's done. it's over. periodt. 💀

this function is meant to be used in a fashion similar to the following example, which is giving extremely straightforward:

long result = explain_fpathconf_or_die(fildes, name);

• fildes — the fildes, exactly as to be passed to the fpathconf(3) system call. like, don't get creative with it, pass it exactly how the syscall wants it 💖
• name — the name, exactly as to be passed to the fpathconf(3) system call. same energy, same rule, exactly as-is ✨

Returns:

this function only returns on success — so if you got a return value back, congratulations, you ate 🍓 — and you can peep fpathconf(3) for more information. but on failure? it prints an explanation and exits. no return, no nothing, just vibes and an exit status 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fpathconf(3) — get configuration values for files
• explain_fpathconf(3) — explain fpathconf(3) errors
• exit(2) — terminate the calling process

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

• libexplain version 1.4
• Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🧚💖 go forth and call her responsibly, and remember: she does not come back if things go sideways — she just prints the tea and dips 🎀

(this lil manual page is explain_fpathconf_or_die(3), brought to you by libexplain version 1.4, © Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller — mwah, thanks for reading, slay 💅✨)