Memcac...bosity(3pm)

πŸ’– memcached_verbosity β€” bestie, we're turning up the volume ✨

okay so real quick, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and its manual name is Memcac...bosity(3pm) (yes the title is literally truncated, iconic of it). it's a C client library situation, and it's about making your memcached servers chatty. let's get into it πŸŽ€


🌸 NAME 🌸

memcached_verbosity β€” Modifiy verbosity of servers

(yes that typo is in the original, i am not fixing it, i respect the lore πŸ’…)


πŸ“š LIBRARY πŸ“š

C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached)

like. it's the C one. link it and go πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <memcached.h>

memcached_return_t
  memcached_verbosity (memcached_st *ptr,
                       unsigned int verbosity);

πŸ’œ DESCRIPTION πŸ’œ

memcached_verbosity() modifies the "verbosity" of the memcached(1) servers referenced in the memcached_st parameter.

that's it. that's the whole thing. you hand it your memcached_st and a number, and the servers get louder or quieter depending on what you passed. it's giving volume knob for your whole memcached set-up πŸ”₯


🫢 RETURN 🫢

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

and if you're staring at that return value like ??? use memcached_strerror() to translate this value to a printable string. she speaks human, promise 😭


🏠 HOME 🏠

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


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈


πŸ’€ tiny reminder bestie: the function signature in the synopsis is the actual signature, memcached_st *ptr and unsigned int verbosity, so don't go freestyling types okay? copy it exactly. periodt.

and that's the whole page!! πŸ§šπŸ’– this one came out of perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, so go forth, crank that verbosity, and remember: MEMCACHED_SUCCESS is the only vibe we accept ✨🌷

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from