NUTSCAN_FREE_DEVICE(3)

💖 NUTSCAN_FREE_DEVICE 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the NUT Manual — that's Network UPS Tools, the iconique little toolkit that talks to your UPS so your machine doesn't just 💀 mid-make. And today's main character is a cleanup function, because we do not leave memory lying around like it's a situationship.

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✨ NAME ✨

nutscan_free_device — frees a nutscan_device_t structure that was created by nutscan_new_device. it's giving spring cleaning, it's giving closure 🧹✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <nut-scan.h>

void nutscan_free_device(nutscan_device_t * device);

literally that's it. include the header, call the function, say bye 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the way that nutscan_free_device() works is: it can free a nutscan_device_type_t structure. bestie. read this twice. when you call it, it doesn't just free the one lil device you handed it — it frees the whole linked list. the entire thing. every node. the given device plus everyone it's holding hands with, all the way down the chain 💀

⚠️ so yeah, if you only wanted to nuke one device out of a longer list, this is not that. this is the "burn the whole group chat" option. no cap.

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

ngl, a tiny technical tea: right now the function is technically defined in the nutscan-device.h file. iykyk 🌈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the rest of the girlies in the nutscan universe, go say hi:

• nutscan_scan_usb(3)
• nutscan_scan_xml_http_range(3)
• nutscan_scan_nut(3)
• nutscan_scan_avahi(3)
• nutscan_scan_ipmi(3)
• nutscan_scan_snmp(3)
• nutscan_display_ups_conf_with_sanity_check(3)
• nutscan_display_ups_conf(3)
• nutscan_display_parsable(3)
• nutscan_new_device(3)
• nutscan_add_option_to_device(3)
• nutscan_add_device_to_device(3)

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okay that's the whole page, and as for the fine print: this is Network UPS Tools 2.8.5, dated 10/07/2026 — periodt 💅💖 go free your devices (the whole list, bestie, don't say i didn't warn you) 🧚⭐