TSIOBUFFERCOPY(3ts)

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version 9.2.5 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

✨ TSIOBUFFERCOPY ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is a Traffic Server manual page and we are reading it together 🫶

This one lives in the Apache Traffic Server docs, section 3ts — which is the part of the manual where all the TS API functions hang out. And the page is literally called TSIOBufferCopy, because the function is called TSIOBufferCopy. Consistency? Iconic. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

TSIOBufferCopy — the TSIOBufferCopy API function ✨

yes bestie that's the whole name section. it's giving "introduced itself and then sat down." no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

the way you summon this function is by pulling in the header first, like so:

#include <ts/ts.h>

and then, the main event 🔥

int64_t TSIOBufferCopy(TSIOBuffer bufp, TSIOBufferReader readerp,
       int64_t length, int64_t offset)

that's it. that's the whole signature. <rainbow>int64_t</rainbow> goes in, int64_t comes out, periodt. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. real talk. 🫶

the DESCRIPTION section on this page is empty. like, empty empty. not a single sentence. not even a little one. the heading showed up, looked around, and said "not me having nothing to say" and left. 😭

which means: this manual page does not describe what TSIOBufferCopy does. no behaviour notes, no explanation of the arguments, no mention of what bufp, readerp, length, or offset actually get up to. nothing. we do not get to make it up either — I'm your bestie, not a liar, so I'm not about to invent semantics that aren't on the page. 🙈

if you need the actual deets, the honest move is to go read the source or the header. but as far as this page is concerned? it's a mystery wrapped in a #include. 💀

2026, dev@trafficserver.apache.org

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🎀 this was Apache Traffic Server 9.2, dated Feb 12, 2026, and yes, I read an entire manpage whose DESCRIPTION is a blank stare and I still had a great time. slay. bye bestie 💅✨🌈

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