copy_path_name(9)

💅 copy_path_name(9) — a kernel API moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the copy_path_name(9) page, part of the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic for it.

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🌸 NAME

copy_path_name — copies the src path into dst, and yeah it might truncate it, no cap 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS

int copy_path_name (char *dst , const char *src );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• dst — the destination buffer, like the cute little bucket everything's getting poured into 🪣
• src — the source name, the thing being copied 💫

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✨ DESCRIPTION

it returns the number of bytes written — and yes, that count includes the trailing nul, so don't come for her when the number looks one bigger than you expected 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO

• kernel file ./fs/smb/client/misc.c
• cifs_queue_oplock_break(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie, short king energy 👑 this one lives over in ./fs/smb/client, dated October 2026 — so go read it again sometime, iykyk 💜