MEMCACHED_FLUSH(3)

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💖 MEMCACHED_FLUSH(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from libmemcached-awesome and it's literally about one function and one function only: memcached_flush. it's giving "small but powerful" energy and we're gonna go through it together, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

memcached_flush — libmemcached Documentation

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <libmemcached/memcached.h>

and like, compile and link with -lmemcached obviously 💅

memcached_return_t memcached_flush(memcached_st *ptr, time_t expiration)

🎀 Parameters 🎀

  • ptr — pointer to an initialized memcached_st struct
  • expiration — expiration as a unix timestamp or as relative expiration time in seconds

🫶 Returns 🫶

memcached_return_t indicating success

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so memcached_flush() is the "clean slate" button, fr fr. it wipes clean the contents of memcached(1) servers. 🧹✨

the way it works is it'll either do the thing immediately or it'll expire the content based on the expiration time you pass in — and psst, a value of zero causes an immediate flush. zero means NOW, periodt. 🔥

⚠️ important bestie: this operation is not atomic to multiple servers, it's just atomic to a single server. that is, it will flush the servers in the order that they were added. so like, don't expect some magical all-at-once group-chat moment across your whole cluster, okay? it's a queue, not a vibe. 😭

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

a value of type memcached_return_t is returned. on success that value will be MEMCACHED_SUCCESS. 🎉

and if you ever need to turn that number into actual human-readable words, use memcached_strerror() to translate this value to a printable string. she's the interpreter of the group chat, iykyk. 💬

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

k that's the whole page, you ate it, go flush responsibly 💖✨🌸🦋🎀💅🫶

this was libmemcached-awesome version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2025 — mwah, iconic, no notes. 👑

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