UMAD_INIT(3)

💅 UMAD_INIT(3) — bestie, it’s giving OpenIB Programmer’s Manual 💅

okay so welcome to the UMAD_INIT(3) page from the OpenIB Programmer’s Manual. this one is short, iconic, and honestly a little chaotic in its simplicity. let’s get into it. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

umad_init, umad_done — perform library initialization and finalization

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <infiniband/umad.h>

int umad_init(void);

int umad_done(void);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

umad_init() and umad_done() do nothing. that’s the whole thing. no secret side quest, no hidden behavior — they literally do nothing. 💀✨

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

Always 0. every time. slay. 🎀

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🎀 COMPATIBILITY 🎀

okay so context, bestie: versions prior to release 18 of the library require umad_init() to be called prior to using any other library functions. old versions could return a failure code of -1 from umad_init(). 😭

for compatibility, applications should continue to call umad_init(), and check the return code, prior to calling other umad_ functions. if umad_init() returns an error, then no further use of the umad library should be attempted. 🚨 this is the “do not keep poking the library after it says no” rule, iykyk.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Dotan Barak <dotanb@mellanox.co.il>
• Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com>

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signed, sealed, and serving source/version energy: OpenIB — May 21, 2007 💖🫶💅