X-Git-Url: https://git.m6w6.name/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fman%2Flibmemcached.3;h=70fbd16baa335420ce657bdca8122d543818ba2d;hb=93e6d035437caee63345d1d9dcf2738e84456f9f;hp=d70d225c6dc34ecd663956d6c249b0d648b0dc11;hpb=1a237369acc2140ec76f46202dfde37047ef140d;p=m6w6%2Flibmemcached diff --git a/docs/man/libmemcached.3 b/docs/man/libmemcached.3 index d70d225c..70fbd16b 100644 --- a/docs/man/libmemcached.3 +++ b/docs/man/libmemcached.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "LIBMEMCACHED" "3" "April 09, 2011" "0.47" "libmemcached" +.TH "LIBMEMCACHED" "3" "April 13, 2011" "0.47" "libmemcached" .SH NAME libmemcached \- Introducing the C Client Library for memcached . @@ -60,8 +60,11 @@ recommended that you operate directly against the structure. Nearly all functions return a \fBmemcached_return_t\fP value. This value can be translated to a printable string with memcached_strerror(3). .sp -Partitioning based on keys is testsed in the library. Using the key partioning -functions it is possible to group sets of object onto servers. +Objects are stored on servers by hashing keys. The hash value maps the key to a particular server. All clients understand how this hashing works, so it is possibly to reliably both push data to a server and retrieve data from a server. +.sp +Group keys can be optionally used to group sets of objects with servers. +.sp +Namespaces are supported, and can be used to partition caches so that multiple applications can use the same memcached servers. .sp \fBmemcached_st\fP structures are thread\-safe, but each thread must contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among