MONGOC_SERVER...IPTION_DESTROY(3)

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💅 MONGOC_SERVER...IPTION_DESTROY(3) 💅

okay bestie, so this one's from libmongoc and yes the title is literally truncated like that, that's not me being dramatic, that's just how it's printed: MONGOC_SERVER...IPTION_DESTROY(3). iconic of the manpage tooling honestly. anyway. we're destroying a server description. it's giving cleanup era. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void
mongoc_server_description_destroy (mongoc_server_description_t *description);

that's the whole vibe. one function, void, no return value, it just Does The Thing and dips. 🦋

🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

  • description — a mongoc_server_description_t. that's it, that's the whole cast of characters. one (1) server description, pls hand it over. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so what this does is free all the resources associated with the server description. like, all of them. memory girlie gets her bag back, the whole thing gets cleaned up, slay. 🧹✨

and here's the lowkey best part: if description is NULL, it does nothing. literally nothing. no crash, no drama, no screaming. it just looks at the NULL, goes "not my problem", and moves on. main character energy fr fr. 💀

ngl this is the kind of function you call once and then never think about again, but bestie if you don't call it, that's a leak. just saying. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — the icons themselves. 💜

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. periodt. 🎀

okay that's the whole page, you ate that. go free your server descriptions and be free yourself ✨

libmongoc 2.5.6 · Oct 09, 2026 · mwah 💋 🌸

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