Memcac..._create(3pm)

🎀 NAME 🎀

ok so these four are your besties for making and unmaking a memcached_st structure:

• memcached_create
• memcached_free
• memcached_clone
• memcached_servers_reset

...and yes bestie, all of them are here to Create a memcached_st structure. that's the whole vibe. 💖

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

the C Client Library for memcached, aka libmemcached, and you link it with -lmemcached. slay. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <memcached.h>

memcached_st *memcached_create (memcached_st *ptr);

void memcached_free (memcached_st *ptr);

memcached_st *memcached_clone (memcached_st *destination, memcached_st *source);

void memcached_servers_reset(memcached_st);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

memcached_create() is the moment you birth a memcached_st structure 🍼 — and that structure is literally what all the other libmemcached(3) functions use to actually talk to the server. so like, it's important. You can either hand it a statically declared memcached_st, or hand it NULL. If you pass a NULL in? it allocates a whole structure for you, no cap. 🫶

memcached_clone() is giving similar to memcached_create(3) energy, except it also copies the defaults and the list of servers from the source memcached_st. If you pass a null as the argument for the source you're cloning, it's literally the same as just calling memcached_create(). And if the destination argument is NULL, a memcached_st gets allocated for you. ✨

memcached_servers_reset() lets you zero out the list of servers that the memcached_st has. clean slate, iconic. 🧼

And to clean up the memory associated with a memcached_st structure, you should pass it to memcached_free() when you're done with it. memcached_free() is the only way to make sure all memory is deallocated when you finish using the structure. like, the ONLY one, bestie 😭

⚠️ You may wish to avoid using memcached_create(3) or memcached_clone(3) with a stack based allocation. The most common issues related to ABI safety involve heap allocated structures. so like... heads up. 💀

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

memcached_create() returns a pointer to the memcached_st that was created (or initialized). On an allocation failure, it returns NULL. 😭

memcached_clone() returns a pointer to the memcached_st that was created (or initialized). On an allocation failure, it returns NULL. 😭

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🏠 HOME 🏠

To find out more information please check: <https://launchpad.net/libmemcached>

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

memcached(1) libmemcached(3) memcached_strerror(3)

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ok bye bestie, mwah 💋 this whole thing is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, and it lives under the manual page name Memcac..._create(3pm) — go forth and memcached_free() your structures, i'm begging 🫶💖🌸