KDK_BOARD_GET_DATE(3)

📦 version 3.0.1.4, in arch rolling, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

kdk_board_get_date — 获取主板生产日期

okay so bestie, this one's literally just the "when was ur motherboard born" function. That Chinese line up there means get the production date of the mainboard, and that's the whole entire job. No cap. 🎀


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <libkyboard.h>

extern const char* kdk_board_get_date();

Link with -lkyhw.

So you pull in libkyboard.h, you call kdk_board_get_date(), and you link with -lkyhw. That's the vibe check. 💅


🌸 Detailed Description 🌸

The main function of the interface is to obtain the production date of the mainboard.

Yeah that's it. That's the girl. She wakes up, she finds the board, she tells you when it was made. Main character energy fr fr. 🦋


🫶 RETURN VALUE 🫶

On success, return the production date of the mainboard of type char*; The returned string needs to be released by free.

On error, return NULL.

⚠️ Bestie listen to me. That string is yours now. You asked for it, you gotta free it. If you don't, that's a memory leak and it's giving "I left the group chat on read." Do not do that. 😭

And if it returns NULL? That's the error signal, okay? Check for it, always. Don't be out here dereferencing NULL, that's not cute, that's undefined behavior energy. 💀


🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Look at this lil main, she's collecting everything — name, vendor, date, serial — and then she frees all four. Queen behavior. 👑

#include "stdio.h"
#include "libkyboard.h"

int main()
{

    char *name = kdk_board_get_name();
    char *vendor = kdk_board_get_vendor();
    char *date = kdk_board_get_date();
    char *serial = kdk_board_get_serial();
    printf("name : %s", name);
    printf("vendor : %s", vendor);
    printf("date : %s", date);
    printf("serial : %s", serial);
    free(name);
    free(vendor);
    free(date);
    free(serial);
    return 0;
}

See how she frees name, vendor, date, and serial? Every. Single. One. Obsessed with the discipline honestly. ✨


🌈 CONFORMING TO 🌈

These functions are as per the withdrawn POSIX.1e draft specification. The following functions are Linux extensions: kdk_board_get_vendor(), kdk_board_get_name(), kdk_board_get_serial() and kdk_board_free().

So like — POSIX.1e is withdrawn, okay, she's retired, she left the building, but these functions follow that spec anyway. And those four up there (kdk_board_get_vendor(), kdk_board_get_name(), kdk_board_get_serial(), kdk_board_free()) are Linux extensions, iykyk. 💜


💅 SEE ALSO 💅

Go read those too, they're the rest of the friend group. 🫶


and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 — this lil manual came from the Linux Programmer's Manual, dated Thu Aug 24 2023. slay, go get that board date. ⭐

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