LLAPI_LOV_STRING_PATTERN(3)

💖 NAME 💖

llapi_lov_pattern_string — bestie, this one turns a LOV_PATTERN mask into a string. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <lustre/lustreapi.h>

int llapi_lov_pattern_string(enum lov_pattern pattern, char *buf, size_t buflen);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you hand llapi_lov_pattern_string() a pattern mask, and it's like "say less" and converts it into a comma-separated string of pattern names, dropping it right into the buf buffer. 💅

the catch? it only goes up to buflen bytes long. like, that's the whole budget, no overages, no extensions. buflen is the limit bestie, respect it 🫶

⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

• success — you get a pointer to the buf string back, slay 💖
• failure — you get NULL 😭 and rn the only thing that causes that is a buffer overflow, so if it's giving NULL, ur buflen was not it.

✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

llapi_lov_pattern_string() is part of the lustre(7) user application interface library, and it's been here since release 2.17.0. so it's new-ish but it ATE 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• llapi_lov_string_pattern(3)
• lustre(7)
• lustreapi(7)

anyway that's the whole page bestie, go forth and convert ur masks 💜 this was the Lustre User API, dated 2025-06-04, and yeah we're still on the LLAPI_LOV_PATTERN_STRING(3) vibe, periodt 🎀