Memcac...uffers(3pm)

💖 memcached_flush_buffers 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're talking about memcached_flush_buffers(3pm) — a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, no less. it's giving "niche but essential" and honestly? we love her for it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

memcached_flush_buffers — flush those buffers and send the buffered commands on their merry way 💅

📚 LIBRARY 📚

this one lives in the C Client Library for memcached, aka libmemcached, and you link it with -lmemcached. iconic. 🔥

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the whole vibe, verbatim:

#include <memcached.h>

memcached_return_t
  memcached_flush_buffers (memcached_st *ptr);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — memcached_flush_buffers() is the bestie of MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_BUFFER_REQUESTS (go peek at memcached_behavior(3) if you haven't met her yet, iykyk).

when you've got that behavior turned on, your commands are just… sitting there. buffered. waiting. 🥺 your function's whole job is to flush all buffers by sending all those buffered commands over to the server so it can actually process them. no cap, that's it. that's the moment. ✨

🫶 RETURN 🫶

you get back a value of type memcached_return_t. when everything goes right that value is literally MEMCACHED_SUCCESS and you can do a little happy dance 💃.

and if you want to turn that value into something human-readable? that's what memcached_strerror() is for. use her. she translates. 🌈

🏠 HOME 🏠

want more info, more lore, more everything? go here:

<https://launchpad.net/libmemcached>

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Trond Norbye, <trond.norbye@gmail.com> — absolute legend, main character energy, we stan. 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group, go say hi:

• memcached(1)
• libmemcached(3)
• memcached_strerror(3)
• memcached_behavior(3)

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and that's the page, fr fr 🍓 — this gem is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, and yes the title got chopped to Memcac...uffers(3pm) which is honestly tragic, she deserves better. anyway ily, go flush those buffers bestie 💖✨🧚