Memcac...ed_quit(3pm)

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✨ NAME ✨

memcached_quit — the "ok bestie we're DONE here" function, aka disconnect from all servers 💅

So this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (yes it's 3pm, the perl-adjacent girlies, we see you) and it's all about yeeting your connections. 🦋

📚 LIBRARY

This one comes from the C Client Library for memcached, which is libmemcached — link it with -lmemcached and you're good. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS

Like, the whole vibe in two lines:

#include <memcached.h>

void memcached_quit (memcached_st *ptr);

That's it. That's the function. Simple. Iconic. No cap.

🌸 DESCRIPTION

Okay so, memcached_quit() disconnects you from all currently connected servers. All of them. Every single one. Bye 👋✨

But wait, there's more — it also resets the state of the connection. Which means: any memcached_fetch() you're literally in the middle of? Terminated. Done. Over. 😭 The fetch does not get to finish its little story arc, bestie. It's giving main character interrupted.

And here's the tea: this function is called automatically when you call memcached_free() on the "memcached_st" structure. So like, the cleanup is already handled, you don't have to micromanage it. 🫶

Now for the part that's lowkey important: you do not need to call this on your own. Periodt.

Every operation that changes server hashes and parameters will handle connections to the server for you. So the library is doing the emotional labour here, not you. 🙈

So why does this function even exist, you ask? Great question, glad you asked 💜 It's provided mainly so that you can timeout your connections or reset connections during the middle of a memcached_fetch(). That's the whole point. That's its niche. That's its moment. 🌈

⭐ RETURN

It hands back a value of type "memcached_return". ✨

On success, that value will be MEMCACHED_SUCCESS. 🎉

And if you wanna know what the value actually means in human words, use memcached_strerror() to translate it into a printable string. Because raw enum values are not it. 💀

🏠 HOME

Wanna go deeper? Need more lore? Bestie, the info lives here:

<https://launchpad.net/libmemcached>

Go check it out, the vibes are immaculate. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>

(Shoutout to the author, we love a legend who writes a whole C memcached client. Respect. 🫡)

🦋 SEE ALSO

iykyk — the whole squad is linked up. 💕

Okay that's the whole page, bestie, you made it to the end, so proud of you 🎀

This documentation came from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19 — and the original page header was doing that Memcac...ed_quit(3pm) abbreviation thing (you know, when the title's too long for the margin and it just gives up and adds dots 💀). Byeee, go disconnect from something! 💜✨

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