MEMCACHED_LIB_VERSION(3)

✨ MEMCACHED_LIB_VERSION ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about libmemcached-awesome's cutest little version-checking duo 💖 yes this is the memcached_lib_version(3) page and no, it's not about the server version, it's about you — well, about your client library. huge difference, iykyk.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

memcached_lib_version — the libmemcached documentation, but make it a glow-up 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <libmemcached/memcached.h>

and like, obviously you compile and link with -lmemcached, that's just the vibe ✨

const char *memcached_lib_version(void)

• Returns — a version string of libmemcached. literally just the string. that's the whole thing. slay. 👑

memcached_return_t memcached_version(memcached_st *ptr)

• Parameters — ptr — pointer to initialized memcached_st struct 💅
• Returns — memcached_return_t indicating success

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So there's two of them and they're doing very different things, don't mix them up bestie 🙈

memcached_lib_version() is the one that just hands you a simple version string representing the libmemcached version. and NO CAP, it's the client library, not the server — that distinction is the whole point, do not come for me 😭

memcached_version() is the ✨fancier✨ one. it goes and sets the major, minor, and micro versions of each memcached server that your memcached_st connection structure is using. and it returns the memcached server return code. main character energy fr fr 🔥

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🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

memcached_lib_version() gives you back a string with the version of the libmemcached driver. cute, simple, no drama. 🦋

from memcached_version() you get a memcached_return_t value back, and on success that value will be MEMCACHED_SUCCESS. periodt. 💅

⚠️ okay but listen: if you call it with the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP behavior set, you're getting MEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED back. it's just not supported over UDP, that's the rule, no notes. 💀

and when you need to actually read that value like a human, use memcached_strerror() to translate it into a printable string. iconic helper behavior, we stan. 🧚

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• memcached(1)
• libmemcached(3)
• memcached_strerror(3)

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this was the libmemcached-awesome manual, version 1.1, dated Jul 24, 2025 — go forth and check your versions, ily, mwah 💖✨🎀