compr_init(9)

💅 compr_init(9) — okay bestie, let's talk compressor init ✨

Welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 energy, where we're looking at compr_init. It's giving "tiny setup function with main character energy" and honestly? iconic. 🎀

---

✨ NAME ✨

compr_init — initialize a compressor. Like, get that compressor set up and ready to do its thing, no cap. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int compr_init (struct ubifs_compressor *compr );

Okay so that's the whole signature, periodt. It returns an int, and it takes one struct ubifs_compressor * named compr. Cute. 💖

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• compr — the compressor description object. That's the lil object that describes the compressor we're asking for. 🫶

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

This function initializes the requested compressor and returns zero in case of success or a negative error code in case of failure.

So basically: call it, it does the setup for the compressor you asked for, and then it hits you with a return value. Zero means success — slay. A negative error code means failure — and yes, bestie, that's your cue to handle it. 💀

No cap: the return value matters. Zero = success, negative = error code. Don't ignore the fail case, iykyk. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/compress.c
• ubifs_compress(9)
• ubifs_compress_folio(9)
• ubifs_decompress(9)
• ubifs_decompress_folio(9)
• compr_exit(9)
• ubifs_compressors_init(9)
• ubifs_compressors_exit(9)

All of those are literally right there in the SEE ALSO orbit, so go click around in the kernel source when you're done here. 👑

---

okay bye bestie, this iconic page came from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's literally compr_init(9) — periodt. 💅✨