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Managing lists of servers
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SYNOPSIS
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#include <libmemcached/memcached.h>

.. c:type:: const memcached_instance_st *

.. c:type:: memcached_server_list_st

.. c:type:: memcached_server_st

.. c:function:: const const memcached_instance_st * memcached_server_list (memcached_st *ptr)

.. c:function:: void memcached_server_list_free (memcached_server_list_st list)
 
.. c:function:: memcached_server_list_st memcached_server_list_append (memcached_server_list_st list, const char *hostname, in_port_t port, memcached_return_t *error)
 
.. c:function:: uint32_t memcached_server_list_count (memcached_server_list_st list)
 
.. c:function:: const char *memcached_server_error (const memcached_instance_st * instance)
 
.. c:function:: void memcached_server_error_reset (const memcached_instance_st * list)
.. deprecated:: 0.39
   
.. c:function:: void memcached_servers_parse ()
.. deprecated:: 0.39

Compile and link with -lmemcached


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DESCRIPTION
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libmemcached(3) operates on a list of hosts which are stored in
:c:type:`memcached_server_st` structures. You should not modify these structures
directly. Functions are provided to modify these structures (and more can be
added, just ask!).

:c:func:`memcached_server_list` is used to provide an array of all defined hosts. This was incorrectly documented as "requiring free" up till version 0.39.

:c:func:`memcached_server_list_free` deallocates all memory associated with the array of :c:type:`memcached_server_st` that you passed to it.

:c:func:`memcached_server_list_append` adds a server to the end of a
:c:type:`memcached_server_st` array. On error null will be returned and the
:c:type:`memcached_return_t` pointer you passed into the function will be set with the appropriate error. If the value of port is zero, it is set to the default
port of a memcached server.

DEPRECATED :c:func:`memcached_servers_parse`, please see :c:func:`memcached`

:c:func:`memcached_server_error` can be used to look at the text of the last error message sent by the server to to the client.

Before version 0.39 theses functions used a memcache_server_st \*. In 0.39
memcached_server_st \* was aliased to :c:type:`memcached_server_list_st`. This was done for a style reason to help clean up some concepts in the code.


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RETURN
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Varies, see particular functions.


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HOME
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To find out more information please check:
`http://libmemcached.org/ <http://libmemcached.org/>`_



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SEE ALSO
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:manpage:`memcached(1)` :manpage:`libmemcached(3)` :manpage:`memcached_strerror(3)`