Memcac...trerror(3pm)

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✨ NAME ✨

memcached_strerror — bestie's little translator for when memcached is going through it 💅

It's a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and yeah the title got cropped to Memcac...trerror(3pm) but we know who she is. 🎀

📚 LIBRARY 📚

C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached)

Like... that's the whole vibe. Link against it or perish. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <memcached.h>

const char *
  memcached_strerror (memcached_st *ptr,
                      memcached_return_t rc);

okay so you're passing in a memcached_st *ptr and a memcached_return_t rc, and she hands you back a const char *. that's it. that's the whole function. no cap. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea, bestie: memcached_strerror() takes a memcached_return_t value and gives you back a string that describes the error. Like a friend who actually tells you what went wrong instead of just "lol something broke." 🔥

⚠️ You must not modify this string. For real. The application does not get to touch it. It's not yours, it's not yours to edit, hands off. 🙈

And like, where do these memcached_return_t values even come from? Nearly all of the libmemcached(3) functions return them. So basically everywhere. Constantly. It's giving "your ex showing up in your notifications." 💀

Now here's the genuinely iconic part: memcached_return_t values are of an enum type, which means you can set up your responses with switch/case and know — for certain, no guessing — that you're capturing all possible return values. Exhaustive switch, bestie. She ate. 👑

🦋 RETURN 🦋

memcached_strerror() returns a string that describes a memcached_return_t value. That's the whole deal — you give her a code, she gives you words. 🌈

🏠 HOME 🏠

Wanna know more? To find out more information please check:

https://launchpad.net/libmemcached

It's her house. Go visit. She'll make you tea. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>

Yeah, he wrote it. Legend behaviour, honestly. 💜

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

iykyk. go read those next. 📖

and that's the page, babe — this whole thing is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, filed under Memcac...trerror(3pm). thanks for coming to my ted talk, mwah 😭💖✨

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