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191 <h1>Wiping clean the contents of a server
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193 <h2>SYNOPSIS
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195 <dt>#include
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196 <dd>Compile and link with -lmemcached
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199 <dt id=
"_CPPv415memcached_flushP12memcached_st6time_t">
200 <span id=
"_CPPv315memcached_flushP12memcached_st6time_t"></span><span id=
"_CPPv215memcached_flushP12memcached_st6time_t"></span><span id=
"memcached_flush__memcached_stP.time_t"></span><a class=
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"memcached_return_t">memcached_return_t
</a> <code class=
"descname">memcached_flush
</code><span class=
"sig-paren">(
</span><a class=
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"memcached_st">memcached_st
</a> *
<em>ptr
</em>, time_t
<em>expiration
</em><span class=
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205 <tr class=
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206 <li><strong>ptr
</strong> -- pointer to an initialized
<a class=
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"memcached_create.html#_CPPv412memcached_st" title=
"memcached_st"><code class=
"xref cpp cpp-any docutils literal notranslate"><span class=
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</span></code></a> struct
</li>
207 <li><strong>expiration
</strong> -- expiration as a unix timestamp or as relative expiration time in seconds
</li>
211 <tr class=
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"memcached_return_t"><code class=
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220 <h2>DESCRIPTION
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221 <p><a class=
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"memcached_flush"><code class=
"xref cpp cpp-any docutils literal notranslate"><span class=
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</span></code></a> is used to wipe clean the contents of
<em class=
"manpage"><a class=
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"https://linux.die.net/man/1/memcached">memcached(
1)
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222 It will either do this immediately or expire the content based on the
223 expiration time passed to the method (a value of zero causes an immediate
224 flush). The operation is not atomic to multiple servers, just atomic to a
225 single server. That is, it will flush the servers in the order that they were
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229 <h2>RETURN VALUE
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230 <p>A value of type
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"memcached_return_t"><code class=
"xref cpp cpp-type docutils literal notranslate"><span class=
"pre">memcached_return_t
</span></code></a> is returned.
231 On success that value will be
<a class=
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"MEMCACHED_SUCCESS"><code class=
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"pre">MEMCACHED_SUCCESS
</span></code></a>.
232 Use
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"memcached_strerror.html#_CPPv418memcached_strerrorP12memcached_st18memcached_return_t" title=
"memcached_strerror"><code class=
"xref cpp cpp-any docutils literal notranslate"><span class=
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</span></code></a> to translate this value to a printable string.
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235 <h2>SEE ALSO
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