blocking_not...n_unregister(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 blocking_notifier_chain_unregister — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this one's from the <cyan>Kernel API Manual</cyan>, and it's literally the "girl, you're off the list" function. we're talking blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(9) — yes the header got chopped to blocking_not...n_unregister(9) in the corner of the page, that's just how the manpage prints it, no cap 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

blocking_notifier_chain_unregister — Remove notifier from a blocking notifier chain 💅

like, you're taking somebody off the group chat. and the group chat is blocking. that's the whole vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int blocking_notifier_chain_unregister (struct blocking_notifier_head
      *nh , struct notifier_block *n );

it returns an int, it takes exactly two things, and yes the spacing in that synopsis is iconic in a chaotic way — we keep it, character for character. 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • nh — pointer to the head of the blocking notifier chain 🧚 like, the literal entry point to the whole chain, the main character of the data structure
  • n — the entry to remove from the notifier chain ✨ this is the girl getting uninvited. bye bestie 💀

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so what it actually does: it removes a notifier from a blocking notifier chain. clean. simple. no drama. 🌈

⚠️ the one thing you cannot skip: it must be called from process context. like, actually must. don't be out here calling this from an interrupt, bestie, that's not the vibe fr fr 😭

and the returns, listen up:

  • returns zero on success — slay, she's gone 💖
  • returns -ENOENT on failure — aka "that notifier? not found, bestie" 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is long but I promised I'd keep every single one, so here's the whole squad, no skips, no cuts 🫡

like, that's the whole friend group — atomic girls, blocking girls, raw girls, srcu girls. all of them. iykyk 🧚💜

pro tip from me to you: if you're unregistering, go check out blocking_notifier_chain_register(9) too, because somebody had to put her on the list in the first place 💅

and that's the page!! 💖 this was pulled from ./kernel, dated October 2026, and the footer says blocking_not...n_unregister(9) because the terminal just refuses to spell the whole thing out. periodt. 🎀✨🦋

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