TDB_ERROR(3)

✨ TDB_ERROR(3) — the Linux Programmer's Manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the <tdb.h> cinematic universe 💖 this one lives in section 3 of the Linux Programmer's Manual, and it's literally just two little functions whose whole job is telling you what went wrong with your tdb database. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tdb_error — return tdb database error state information. tdb_errorstr — return a printable string representing the error state of a tdb database.

so yeah, one of them hands you the vibe check on your error state, and the other one turns that vibe into actual words you can print. iconic duo fr fr 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <tdb.h>

enum TDB_ERROR tdb_error(TDB_CONTEXT *tdb);
char *tdb_errorstr(TDB_CONTEXT *tdb);

look at that. two lines. no drama. we love a low-maintenance API 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

tdb_error returns the current error state of the tdb database. that's it, that's the whole thing — you hand it your TDB_CONTEXT *tdb and it tells you where things stand rn.

tdb_errorstr returns a printable string that describes the error state of the database. so when you wanna actually say something to a human (or to stderr, same energy 😭), this is the one you call.

ngl it's giving "small but mighty" — no flags, no options, no environment variables, no exit statuses to memorize. just pure, unfiltered error-state intel. periodt. ✨

reminder bestie: keep every detail, and there are genuinely no extra details here. what you see is what you get, and what you get is slay. 🎀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Software: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com> and Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
• Man page: Ben Woodard <ben@valinux.com>

shoutout to the whole squad who built this and then wrote it down so we could all understand it 🫶 absolute main character energy.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• gdbm(3)
• tdb(3)

go read those next, iykyk 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from the Samba crew, dated Aug 16, 2000 — which is lowkey ancient but highkey still correct, and honestly? it ate. 💖✨🎀