Memcac...ersion(3pm)

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💖 memcached_lib_version, memcached_version — Get library version 💖

okay bestie, so this page is Memcac...ersion(3pm) and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your man pages. It's a lil' baby page but it's doing important work: it's literally just "what version are we running??" energy. Two functions, both about versions, both slaying. ✨

🌈 LIBRARY 🌈

C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached) — that's the one, that's the girl 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <memcached.h>

const char *
  memcached_lib_version (void)

memcached_return_t
  memcached_version (memcached_st *ptr)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so there's two of them and they are NOT the same thing, don't get it twisted 🫶

memcached_lib_version() hands you back a simple version string representing the libmemcached version. and like, read this part carefully bestie — it's the version of the client library, not the server. client. not server. the client. okay good. 😌

memcached_version() is the other one. it sets the major, minor, and micro versions of each memcached server being used by the memcached_st connection structure. every server, not just one, they all get their versions set. and it returns the memcached server return code, obviously. 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

memcached_lib_version() returns a string with the version of the libmemcached driver. just a string. that's it. iconic of it tbh 💖

memcached_version() returns a value of type memcached_return_t. on success that value will be MEMCACHED_SUCCESS. 🎉

but no cap, watch out: if you called it with the MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP behavior set, then you get MEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED instead. UDP said "not today." 😭

and if you want that return value to actually be readable by a human, use memcached_strerror() to translate it into a printable string. it's giving translator bestie, we love her 🧚

🦋 HOME 🦋

if you wanna know more (and you should, nosy queen 👀) please check:

<https://launchpad.net/libmemcached>

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org> — thank you for your service king 🫡💜

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

and that's the whole page bestie, go check your versions, you got this 💅✨

kisses, this was perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, filed under Memcac...ersion(3pm) — mwah 🎀🦋🌈

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