GEARMAN_ARGUMENT_T(3)

💜 NAME 💜

gearman_argument_t — it's giving Gearmand Documentation energy, bestie, straight from http://gearman.info/ ✨

This is a page from the Gearmand manual, section 3, and we're about to make it make sense 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so first things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <libgearman/gearman.h>

then there's the type itself:

type gearman_argument_t

and the one function this whole page is basically about:

gearman_argument_t gearman_argument_make(const char *name, const size_t
<#c.size_t> name_length, const char *value, const size_t <#c.size_t>
value_size)

and when you actually build your stuff, you compile and link with -lgearman 🔗 (don't skip it, she's required)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the gearman_argument_make() function initializes a gearman_argument_t. That's the whole job. She sets it up, she hands it off, she's done 💅

And what is a gearman_argument_t, you ask? It's an abstraction — a lil wrapper — used for passing arguments over to gearman_execute() <#c.gearman_execute>. That's her whole purpose in life ✨

👀 BIG important thing, no cap: the arguments are NOT copied. Like, at all. So any object you used to initialize your gearman_argument_t has to keep existing for the entire lifetime / usage of the structure. If your object dips out early, that's on you bestie 😭

so yeah. keep your stuff alive. the struct is lowkey borrowing it, not owning it. periodt.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• gearmand(8)
• libgearman(3)
• gearman_client_error() or gearman_worker_error()

go read those too, they're iconic in their own right 👑

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💖 Author 💖

Data Differential — http://www.datadifferential.com/ 🫶

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🌈 Copyright 🌈

2011-2014, Data Differential, http://www.datadifferential.com/ — protect the copyright bestie, it's literally the law 📜✨

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aaaand that's the whole page, we ate fr fr 💅🍓 This was Gearmand's GEARMAN_ARGUMENT_T(3) page, version 1.1.21+ds, dated Feb 04, 2026, and honestly? iconic of it to exist. bye bestie, go link with -lgearman 👋💜