zstd_free_cctx(9)

🎀 zstd_free_cctx(9) — Free compression context 🎀

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual, and this page is all about zstd_free_cctx(9) — literally the “free compression context” bestie. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

zstd_free_cctx — Free compression context. periodt. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

size_t zstd_free_cctx (zstd_cctx* cctx );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• cctx — bestie, the page literally says -- undescribed -- 😭 so that's all the description we get. No cap.

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💫 RETURN 💫

Always 0. Always. That's the whole return section, and honestly? iconic. ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./include/linux/zstd.h

and then the whole zstd cinematic universe, fr fr:

• zstd_compress_bound(9)
• zstd_is_error(9)
• zstd_get_error_code(9)
• zstd_get_error_name(9)
• zstd_min_clevel(9)
• zstd_max_clevel(9)
• zstd_default_clevel(9)
• zstd_get_params(9)
• zstd_get_cparams(9)
• zstd_cctx_set_param(9)
• zstd_cctx_workspace_bound(9)
• zstd_cctx_workspace_bound_with_ext_seq_prod(9)
• zstd_init_cctx(9)
• zstd_compress_cctx(9)
• zstd_create_cctx_advanced(9)
• zstd_create_cdict_byreference(9)
• zstd_free_cdict(9)
• zstd_compress_using_cdict(9)
• zstd_dctx_workspace_bound(9)
• zstd_init_dctx(9)
• zstd_decompress_dctx(9)
• zstd_create_ddict_byreference(9)
• zstd_free_ddict(9)
• zstd_create_dctx_advanced(9)
• zstd_free_dctx(9)
• zstd_decompress_using_ddict(9)
• zstd_cstream_workspace_bound(9)
• zstd_cstream_workspace_bound_with_ext_seq_prod(9)
• zstd_init_cstream(9)
• zstd_reset_cstream(9)
• zstd_compress_stream(9)
• zstd_flush_stream(9)
• zstd_end_stream(9)
• zstd_dstream_workspace_bound(9)
• zstd_init_dstream(9)
• zstd_reset_dstream(9)
• zstd_decompress_stream(9)
• zstd_find_frame_compressed_size(9)
• zstd_get_frame_header(9)
• zstd_compress_sequences_and_literals(9)

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mwah 💋 — source: ./include/linux • date: October 2026 • page: zstd_free_cctx(9). bye bestie, go free that context 🫶✨