LFIND(3P)

💖 LFIND(3P) — bestie's guide to the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay so before we even get into it, real talk: this page lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and there's a whole thing you need to know about that. This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go read the corresponding Linux manual page if you need the Linux deets), or — and this is the tea — the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈

✨ NAME ✨

lfind — find entry in a linear search table

like, it goes looking for your thing in a list. that's the whole vibe. 🔍

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <search.h>

void *lfind(const void *key, const void *base, size_t *nelp,
    size_t width, int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));

look at that signature. she's serving function pointer realness. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, plot twist: refer to lsearch(). that's it. that's the description. this page is basically the little sibling who just points at the bigger sibling and goes "ask her." 😭 iconic honestly.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

And fr fr, in the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard — the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. like, she's the final boss. no cap. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

ok bestie that's the whole page, you ate it up, go forth and linear search 🫶

this little legend comes to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it's filed under LFIND(3P). mwah 💋✨🎀