avc_init(9)

✨ avc_init(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (yes, the kernel has lore too, and it's giving ancient scroll) and today we're talking about avc_init 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

avc_init — Initialize the AVC.

like, it literally just sets the whole thing up. main character energy for real 🔥

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void avc_init (void );

ngl bestie, the signature is kind of a serve in how aggressively minimal it is 💀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments. nothing. zero. empty set. she takes nothing and she gives everything 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what does it actually do? It initializes the access vector cache. that's the whole bit ✨

no cap, that's the entire description. sometimes the icon is just iconic and doesn't need a paragraph 🎀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./security/selinux/avc.c, plus the whole friend group 💜

• avc_lookup(9)
• avc_insert(9)
• avc_audit_pre_callback(9)
• avc_audit_post_callback(9)
• avc_add_callback(9)
• avc_update_node(9)
• avc_flush(9)
• avc_ss_reset(9)
• avc_compute_av(9)
• avc_perm_nonode(9)
• avc_has_perm_noaudit(9)
• avc_has_perm(9)

go read them, they're all lowkey obsessed with this one 🧚

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fr fr that's the whole page. short, sweet, and absolutely slaying in its lane 💅

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and that's a wrap, my love 😭💖 this came out of ./security/selinux and the date on it is October 2026 — so yes, she's from the future and she's still just initializing the AVC. periodt. 👑⭐