LFIND(3POSIX)

💖 LFIND(3POSIX) 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to lfind, straight out of the POSIX Programmer's Manual ✨ (that's the manual name, bestie, and yes it's serving 3POSIX energy) 🎀

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay so before we even get into it, real talk: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. but heads up babes — the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior 👀), or honestly the interface may just not be implemented on Linux at all. it's giving "your mileage may vary" 💅

✨ NAME ✨

lfind — find entry in a linear search table 🔍

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <search.h>

void *lfind(const void *key, const void *base, size_t *nelp,
    size_t width, int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));

look at that signature, she's iconic fr fr 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, this one's short and sweet: refer to lsearch(). that's it. that's the whole vibe. go read that one, iykyk 😌

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

ngl this part is the serious bit so listen up 🫶

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

not me having to be the responsible one for exactly one paragraph 😭 but fr, if anything looks typo'd or formatted weird it's almost definitely the conversion's fault, not the standard's. report it at the link above bestie 💖

and that's the whole page!! 🌈 this one came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and yeah it's literally LFIND(3POSIX) through and through ✨ slay, bye bestie 💜