Memcac..._flush(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

memcached_flush — bestie, this one wipes the contents of your memcached servers. Like, all of it. Gone. Slay, but also be careful ✨

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached) 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <memcached.h>

memcached_return_t
  memcached_flush (memcached_st *ptr,
                   time_t expiration);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so memcached_flush() is the "clean slate" button 🧹✨ It wipes clean the contents of your memcached(1) servers.

It's gonna do one of two things:

• wipe everything immediately, or
• expire the content based on the expiration time you hand to the method

and like, heads up: a value of zero causes an immediate flush. zero = right now, no waiting, periodt 💅

⚠️ the operation is not atomic to multiple servers — it's only atomic to a single server. so it will flush the servers in the order that they were added. one at a time, bestie, in the order they showed up 🙈

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

A value of type memcached_return_t is returned. On success, that value will be MEMCACHED_SUCCESS 👑

Use memcached_strerror() to translate this value into a printable string, iykyk 💜

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🏠 HOME 🏠

wanna find out more? go check it out here:

<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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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🫶 this was documented for perl v5.42.3 and dated 2026-08-19. go forth and flush responsibly 🌈⭐💖